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You're listening to Roundtable. I'm Feifei together with Yushan and Steve Hadley.
Coming up, across China, people are heading out.
Not to malls, but to courts, to trails, to warehouses with DJ booths.
To be exact, 800 million people participated in some kind of outdoor sports last year,
from retirees to office workers to mothers.
They're not really here to win or get attention, but for the experience itself.
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And now, in China right now, people from all walks of life are heading outside
to catch that summer breeze and work up a sweat.
We have a mother booking a pickleball court on her lunch break,
an office worker signing up for HYROX to prove that those gym hours meant something else,
and also we have a retiree calling a court her offline social platform.
800 million people participated in some kind of outdoor sports last year in China,
and this number captures exactly how Chinese people are organizing their leisure, their travel, and even their identity.
So, Yushan and Steve, it's summertime, it's getting warmer, so that means our muscle needs less time to warm up.