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Extremely popular - it was one of the first sports where china became involved in international competition + enjoyed success, making it even more popular
As China renegaged the world after the cultural revolution (early 1970s) 'pingpong diplomacy' became an important way of making bonds with other countries - sending chinese ping pong teams to compete in USA etc Other Answer
It's as big as soccer in Brazil or gambling in Vegas
as popular as rice.
It's a very popular game here.
very, china has a lot of olympic medals in ping pong, look at wang liqin and wang hao, wang liqin is currently ranked number one in the world