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Cyber athletes earn millions in China

Twenty-one-year-old Li Xiaofeng, a professional E-game player, can champion himself as one of the highest-paid athletes in China.

DNA Web Team

Updated : Dec 13, 2017, 01:47 AM IST

BEIJING: Twenty-one-year-old Li Xiaofeng can champion himself as one of the highest-paid athletes in China.

However, one will never see Li competing at the Olympics or in the NBA. He is a professional E-game player, or cyber athlete who works out just as much as other athletes.

"I play 70 hours a week, just to keep my 'skills' from dropping," Li said. "I have to arrange my time really carefully so I don't spend too many hours in front of the computer to protect my eyes and my hands from getting exhausted."

Said a cyber competition organizer: "Top players who win cyber game competitions are rewarded with huge bonuses ranging from 100,000 to 1 million yuan ($12,660 to $126,600).

The players also earn a lot from sponsorships from game producers. So it is easy for them to earn one million yuan a year.

Li agrees the hard work is worth it. "The pay is good," he said. Warcraft III, Counter Strike, Starcraft: Broodwar and Winning Eleven are the four most popular cyber games at competitions.

China now has 23 million on-line game players, surging from 13.8 million in 2003. The China State Sport General Administration declared in 2003 that electronic sports were the 99th ranked sport activity.

Revenue from the country's on-line gaming sector alone is expected to reach nearly seven billion yuan ($886 million), with further predictions that it will double to 14.3 billion yuan ($1.8 billion) in 2010.

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