On this day, 88 years ago, on August 10, 1937 (July 5, 1937, the Chinese table tennis player Rong Guotuan, the first world champion in the Chinese table tennis world, was born. Rong Guotuan was born in Hong Kong on August 10, 1937. Born in Nanping Township, Zhongshan County (now Nanping Town, Zhuhai City, Guangdong Province). I have loved table tennis since I was a child. At the age of 15, he represented the Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions table tennis team in competitions. In 1957, he returned from Hong Kong at the age of 20 and entered the Guangzhou Institute of Physical Education to study in the same year. In 1958, he was selected to join the Guangdong Province table tennis team. In the same year, he participated in the National Table Tennis Championships and won the Men's Singles Championship. In March 1959, at the 25th World Table Tennis Championships in Dortmund, West Germany, he successively defeated table tennis stars from various countries in the men's singles and finally competed with Hungarian veteran Sidor, who won nine world championships. He won the first table tennis men's singles world championship for China and was also the first world championship winner for New China. Is the name of Rong Guotuan engraved on St. Paul for the first time? At the Blaire Cup, he was the first world champion for a Chinese table tennis player. At the 26th World Table Tennis Championships held in Beijing in April 1961, under the unfavorable situation of 3:4, China cheered up and defeated the Japanese team member Hoshino, known as the "fierce lion", winning the Swaythrin Cup for the first time by defeating the Japanese team 5:3. He made an important contribution to the China team's first men's team championship. After 1964, he served as the coach of the China women's table tennis team and won the women's team championship at the 28th World Table Tennis Championships. In 1958, he was awarded the title of athlete. In 1959 and 1961, he was awarded the Sports Medal of Honor by the State Sports Commission twice. In 1984, he was named one of the outstanding athletes in the 35 years since the founding of the People's Republic of China. During the ten years of turmoil, Rong Guotuan was framed and labeled as "suspected spy". When he committed suicide in June 1968, he was only 31 years old and left a daughter. In 1978, the State Sports Commission restored the reputation of Rong Guotuan. In 1987, a bronze statue of Rong Guotuan was built in Zhuhai City, Rong Guotuan's hometown.