China

China (officially the People's Republic of China) is a country located in Asia and the most populous country in the world (although India is rapidly catching up). It is home to the China Baseball League and hosted the 2008 Olympics.

While baseball is a very marginal sport in the country, it has been the focus of significant development efforts by Major League Baseball, as the country's huge population and growing interest in other American sports such as basketball, as well as its proximity to baseball-mad Japan and South Korea (not to mention the Republic of China) make it a natural market.

People born here

• Xu An, Chinese national team infielder
• Baoliang Bai, Chinese national team pitcher
• Tao Bu, Chinese national team pitcher
• Haifeng Chen, Chinese national team pitcher
• Hao Chen, Chinese national team outfielder
• Junyi Chen, Chinese national team pitcher
• Kun Chen, Chinese national team pitcher
• Qi Chen, Chinese national team outfielder
• Zhe Chen, Chinese national team infielder
• Fujia Chu, Chinese national team infielder
• Enting Cui, minor league pitcher
• Xiao Cui, Chinese national team infielder
• Fei Feng, Chinese national team outfielder
• Yi Feng, Chinese national team catcher
• G.H. Fleming, writer
• Nobuo Fujita, college coach; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Quan Gan, Chinese national team pitcher
• Haicheng Gong, minor league pitcher
• Wenxin Gu, Chinese national team outfielder
• Tao Guo, Chinese national team infielder
• Jinten Haku, NPB outfielder
• Xiao Han, minor league outfielder
• Makoto Hosaka, stadium company president; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Fenglian Hou, Chinese national team infielder
• Huadancairang, Chinese national team pitcher
• Delong Jia, Chinese national team infielder
• Yu Bing Jia, Chinese national team catcher
• Xiaoyu Jiang, Chinese national team outfielder
• Kwon Ju, KBO pitcher
• Harry Kingman, infielder
• YongKang Kou, minor league infielder
• Guojun Lai, Chinese national team pitcher
• Bin Li, Chinese national team catcher
• Chenhao Li, Chinese national team pitcher
• Hongrui Li, Chinese national team pitcher
• Jiaqiang Li, Chinese national team pitcher
• Lei Li, Chinese national team outfielder
• Ning Li, Chinese national team catcher
• Peng Li, Chinese national team pitcher
• Shuai Li, Chinese national team pitcher
• Tao Li, Chinese national team catcher
• Weiliang Li, Chinese national team pitcher
• Wenming Li, Chinese national team pitcher
• Xin Li, Chinese national team pitcher
• Zeyuan Li, Chinese national team infielder
• Ziliang Li, Chinese national team pitcher
• Jianzhong Liu, Chinese national team infielder
• Kai Liu, Chinese national team pitcher
• Ruolu Liu, Chinese national team outfielder
• Yaqing Liu, Chinese national team outfielder
• Zhicheng Liu, Chinese national team outfielder
• Chen Lu, Chinese national team catcher
• Jiangang Lu, Chinese national team pitcher
• Chenchen Luan, minor league catcher
• Peng Luo, Chinese national team outfielder
• Weijun Luo, Chinese national team catcher
• Qingyuan Meng, Chinese national team pitcher
• Zhaopeng Meng, Chinese national team pitcher
• Koji Okamura, NPB catcher
• Wenbin Pan, Chinese national team infielder
• Jiping Qi, Chinese national team pitcher
• Xin Qi, minor league pitcher
• Min Ren, Chinese national team catcher
• Changlong Su, Chinese national team pitcher
• Guogiang Sun, Chinese national team pitcher
• Hailong Sun, Chinese national team pitcher
• Lingfeng Sun, Chinese national team outfielder
• Wei Sun, Chinese national team infielder
• Aiping Wang, Chinese national team coach
• Chao Wang, minor league pitcher
• Jingchao Wang, Chinese national team infielder
• Kai Wang, Chinese national team infielder
• Wei Wang, Chinese national team catcher
• Weiyi Wang, Chinese national team pitcher
• Zhanpeng Wang, Chinese national team pitcher
• Zheng Wei, Chinese national team pitcher
• Hsiang-Mu Wu, CPBL manager; Taiwan Baseball Hall of Fame
• Kangan Xia, Chinese national team pitcher
• Gui Yuan Xu, minor league infielder
• Yunlong Xu, Chinese national team pitcher
• Zheng Xu, Chinese national team pitcher
• Guogang Yang, Chinese national team infielder
• Jin Yang, minor league infielder
• Shuo Yang, Chinese national team outfielder
• Jian Yi, minor league pitcher
• Mingqiang Ye, Chinese national team pitcher
• Jiao Yi, Chinese national team manager
• Sheng Yi, Chinese national team manager
• Yuankai Zhai, Chinese national team outfielder
• Deyang Zhang, Chinese national team infielder
• Dongxu Zhang, Chinese national team pitcher
• Fujia Zhang, Chinese national team infielder
• Haoyue Zhang, Chinese national team infielder
• Hongbo Zhang, Chinese national team outfielder
• Jianwang Zhang, Chinese national team pitcher
• Jinsheng Zhang, Chinese national team outfielder
• Jun Zhang, Chinese national team pitcher
• Li Zhang, Chinese national team pitcher
• Wanjun Zhang, Chinese national team pitcher
• Yufeng Zhang, Chinese national team infielder
• Zhenwang Zhang, Chinese national team catcher
• Bo Zhao, Chinese national team pitcher
• Quansheng Zhao, Chinese national team pitcher
• Jing Zhou, Chinese national team pitcher
• Dawei Zhu, Chinese national team pitcher
• Jinghao Zhu, minor league pitcher
• Wanyun Zhu, Chinese national team pitcher

People who died here

• Chih-Chia Chang, NPB pitcher
• Kiyoshi Maeda, NPB outfielder
• Hachiro Miwa, NPB pitcher
• Toshiyasu Ogawa, NPB catcher
• Toshio Ohara, NPB catcher

Further Reading

• Ryan Hutzler: "The Next Frontier - China", The Baseball Research Journal, SABR, Vol. 39, Number 2 (Fall 2010), pp. 17-24.
• Mark Newman: "MLB unveils partnership to help grow game in China: League teams up with BEREGL to develop new facilities", mlb.com, December 22, 2017. [1]

Related Sites

• Sketch history of baseball in China focused on the 2000s