Young athletes from China and Russia will gather together in Moscow next week and enjoy a four-day sports games, a senior Russian sports official said in Moscow on Tuesday.

Those games will last from June 13 to 16, covering ten events such as basketball, gymnastics, artistic gymnastics, diving, shooting, swimming, wrestling and wushu, said Sergei Korol, deputy director of the national sports bureau.

There will be 176 teenagers from the two countries to take part in the events, which will be the only sports occasion in the "Year of China" marked in Russia in 2007. The last such events was hosted by China's Tianjin Municipality in 2006.

(Xinhua News Agency June 6, 2007)