A five-day Chinese basketball draft camp is expected to open in the United States next week.

Club managers under the Chinese Basketball Association, or CBA, will leave for Oregon on September 10 to draw players from 64 selected applicants.

The camp, co-hosted by the CBA and the USBA, is the CBA's first-ever unified overseas draw since its founding in 1995.

The association hopes this practice will better regulate the trade of foreign players in China.

(CRI September 4, 2004)