Eight-time table tennis world champion Guo Yuehua and his fellow Chinese star Chen Xinhua attended training courses of local table tennis players at the provincial stadium in Lubango, Angola's central Huila province.

During the two-hour training session, Guo Yuehua and Chen Xinhua trained each of the 50 young players at the stadium to the delight of cheering audiences, trying to correct the techniques of the the players before they selected two young girls from a same family for further two-year training courses at Guo's table tennis club in China's Fujian province.

Earlier on Friday, Guo and Chen had selected another four Angolan young players at the national stadium in Luanda for the same training program in China after staging an exhibition match in the capital city.

Guo and Chen are best known table tennis stars in the 1980s in China, a traditional powerhouse in table tennis. They arrived in Angola on Tuesday for a week-long visit at the invitation of the Kilumba Kiaxi Social Housing Project under China's CITIC company, which had promised to promote the development of table tennis in the African country.

Besides sponsoring the six Angolan players training courses at Guo's club, CITIC also pledged to donate table tennis equipments valued at 300,000 U.S. dollars and to sponsor beach volleyball events in Angola.