Chinese financier Kenny Huang Jian Hua is leading a ten-year, multi-million dollar investment in youth baseball in China.
A partnership has been agreed between Huang’s investment QSL Sports Limited and the Chinese Basketball Association to create the China Youth Baseball League (CYBL). The press release announcing said it was designed to “[increase] China’s influence in the sport on the international stage”.
“Japanese, Korean and Taiwanese players get to play in the best leagues in the world and so will the Chinese,” said Huang.
“It is my belief that China, as a sports-loving nation, has immense potential in offering great talent to the world of baseball at the highest levels. This partnership with CBA turns a new page in the development of baseball in China. I look forward to seeing more Chinese players take their places in Major League Baseball just like Yao Ming does in the NBA. I am confident that our effort will help grow in China ‘a love of the game’ in the near future.”
