China Heavyweight

China Heavyweight also known by its Chinese title is a 2012 documentary film by the ChineseCanadian documentary film director Yung Chang and released by EyeSteelFilm. It is Yung Changs second long feature documentary film after Up the Yangtze from 2007.

The film is about Qi Moxiang, a boxing coach who, alongside Zhao Zhong, the boxing program director, goes to rural China to recruit from ordinary peasant hopefuls to be trained for a possible sporting and Olympic career. The documentary shows his visit to Huili County in the southwestern Sichuan province, and documents the young athletes chosen there.The film concentrates on two of the boys Miao Yunfei and He Zhongli whom coach Qi has brought to the Chinese provincial finals. In addition, to provide a role model for his students, Qi decides to fight professionally again against a much younger rival from Japan. ........

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