Often hailed as one of the most popular sports in China, badminton is followed by millions of Chinese nationals and, over the years, the country has also created an impact on an international level with its top-notch players, including Chen Long, Wang Zhiyi, Shi Yuqi and many others.
As of June 2025, China has clinched the highest total of seventy gold medals at the prestigious BWF World Championships across all categories and a record total of forty-seven medals in the Olympic Games over the past few decades. Additionally, China has lifted the glorious Thomas Cup a record total of eleven times and the highly coveted Sudirman Cup thirteen times, speaking volumes about their global dominance in the sport of badminton.
In this article we will take a look at the top three training secrets that make China a world champion in the sport of badminton.
How China Creates Badminton Champions: Top 3 Training Secrets
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Training Camps With Strict Discipline
Well, badminton training camps in China are built more like boot camps with fearless competitors, highly disciplined athletes and unbreachable rules and regulations. China focuses on scouting young players aged between 8 and 10 years and enrolls them into training camps where they undergo rigorous training of six to seven hours each day.
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In addition to training camps, China also openly promotes the full-time residential sports school where these young athletes eat, sleep, study, and train — all within the same disciplined environment. Moreover, the majority of Chinese badminton coaches are former Olympians who have been through the excruciating pressure and faced it with excellence.
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Specialised Training Roles – Singles, Doubles & Mixed
In China, the badminton coaches lay their entire focus on training the players depending on their roles – singles, doubles or mixed, thus maximising their attacking potential on the court. Additionally, in China, badminton players are often trained with modified court drills that vary from one player to the other depending upon their individual role on the court.
China’s ability to dominate opposing players across all formats – singles, doubles and mixed-is directly related to its individually targeted training approach. If you’re a fan of badminton, you must have observed the Chinese players walk onto the court with an unmatched level of confidence, well it comes from their specialised and targeted training.
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Systematic Recording & Tactical Breakdown of Matches
China’s unmatched and reigning badminton training system involves a systematic recording of practice sessions and matches of the players that helps their coaches in rightly analysing diverse aspects of their on-court performance, including track technique, footwork, and positioning.
According to reports, badminton athletes in China are used to seeing their performance on the screen as it helps them in self-evaluating both their dominance and flaws on the court while playing against the opponent. The coaches and players often sit and breakdown the performance frame-to-frame to spot the playing patterns of the player and ultimately refine their gameplay.
