National table tennis is currently undergoing intensive training in Wenzhou, on the one hand, in order to allow young players to integrate into the national table tennis team faster after the "renewal", on the other hand, it is also to prepare for the upcoming World Table Tennis Championships. However, Xu Xin, known as the "People's Artist", was absent from the training due to injury. On October 29, Beijing time, Xu Xin was invited to attend the opening ceremony of the Shanghai University Games and became a visiting professor of the university, and Xu Xin's arrival also made the event receive great attention. Xu Xin does not need to introduce too much, and Xu Xin appeared with the mentor Cao Yanhua, Cao Yanhua sat on the rostrum, looks very young, the face is not obvious wrinkles, coupled with a tall figure and fashionable wear, looks like about 40 years old, but this year Cao Yanhua is 59 years old this year, nearly 60 years old, it can be seen that Cao Yanhua attaches great importance to body management and maintenance.
Although Cao Yanhua is nearly 60 years old, for fans who understand the national table tennis, they must be very admired for Cao Yanhua's achievements. Before Cao Yanhua retired, table tennis events did not enter the Olympic Games, and the World Cup was not established, so the World Table Tennis Championships became the most important competition. In this case, Cao Yanhua participated in the three singles World Table Tennis Championships, winning two gold and one silver, and the silver medal was also won in the case of "handicap", otherwise Cao Yanhua may become the first world table tennis champion in a row. At the age of 19, Cao Yanhua entered the final for the first time in the Singles World Table Tennis Championships, but because of the "handicap", he was the runner-up, and then won the championship in the two World Table Tennis Championships, during which the women's doubles and team championships were also included. However, after winning the world table tennis championship in 1985, Cao Yanhua, who was only 23 years old and ranked first in the world, announced his retirement, which made the entire table tennis world feel puzzled, after all, three years later, the table tennis project Liang was officially included in the official Olympic games.
After retiring from the army, he accompanied her husband Shi Zhihao to Germany, and returned to Shanghai after living in Germany for 9 years to establish the Cao Yanhua Table Tennis School, which has become a famous table tennis school in Shanghai, especially after the training of Xu Xin, which has greatly increased the reputation of the school. When Cao Yanhua was working hard in Shanghai, and her husband Shi Zhihao was also invited by Cai Zhenhua to serve as the coach and manager of the national table tennis women's team, the separation of the two places eventually caused the marriage to break down. Shi Zhihao later married a 23-year-old national table tennis player who was younger than himself, and after retiring from the army, the two worked together at the Shanghai Table Tennis Academy. Although Cao Yanhua founded his own table tennis school, because he is far away from the national table tennis, his popularity is not high, and he is naturally rarely mentioned by the outside world. In 2019, Cao Yanhua updated her social platform and announced the news of her remarriage, and this year Cao Yanhua was 57 years old.
However, Cao Yanhua and her current husband are both table tennis players, and both look very young, not at all like a "dusk" couple who are nearly 60 years old. In addition, the mentor-apprentice relationship between Cao Yanhua and Xu Xin can be said to be often mentioned, when Xu Xin went to Cao Yanhua School to study table tennis in 2002, the initial talent and comprehension ability were worse than those of his classmates, but after that, Xu Xin improved rapidly, and even Cao Yanhua was initially not optimistic about Xu Xin. However, the relationship between Cao Yanhua and Xu Xin is very good, and Cao Yanhua and Xu Xin's wife have been out of the same door, so the relationship between the two families is very close.