The Chinese Basketball Association (CBA) on Monday announced the 20-player list for camp training sessions for the 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup. Some familiar names including Yi Jianlian, Ding Yanyuhang and Zhou Qi were all included.

The list is as follows:

Yi Jianlian, Zhou Peng, Ren Junfei and Zhaorui from the Guangdong Southern Tigers;

Guo Ailun, Zhao Jiwei and Liu Zhixuan from the Liaoning Flying Leopards;

Wang Zhelin and Chen Linjian from the Fujian Sturgeons;

Zhai Xiaochuan and Fang Shuo from the Beijing Ducks;

Abudushalamu Abudurexiti and Kelanbaike Makan from the Xinjiang Flying Tigers;

Hu Jinqiu and Sun Minghui from Zhejiang Lions;

Wu Qian from the Zhejiang Golden Bulls;

Shen Zijie from the Shenzhen Leopards;

Zhou Qi, Ding Yanyuhang and Zhang Zhenlin;

According to the CBA, these players will train together to prepare for the coming World Cup that will take place in China between August 31 and September 15. The sessions will begin on May 15, but players from Guangdong and Xinjiang - the two teams that just finished the 2019 CBA Finals - do not have to show up on that day. Moreover, Yi Jianlian who went to the U.S. to heal his foot injury will not return soon.

Some familiar names missed the list this time like Han Dejun, Li Gen and Hu Mingxuan, but considering that the sessions will last for months, these players still have the opportunity of playing on behalf of China at the world's top basketball tournament.

Ding Yanyuhang and Zhao Jiwei have missed the national team for a long time because of injuries. Since the 2018 Asian Games, Ding stay in the U.S. recovering and training. Zhao broke his left foot during team training in August 2018, and that incident cost him the Asian Games. Though he had been struggling since he came back in the second half of the 2018-19 season, coach Li Nan still invited Zhao to the camp training for his court vision and defense.

19-year-old Zhang Zhenlin trained with Team Blue last summer. 2.08-meter-tall Zhang is a freshman forward of Tulane University. In the 30 games he played, Zhang could get 6.5 points and 2.4 rebounds on average. In the game against Florida State University, Zhang scored 24 points and seven rebounds, adding a Chinese highlight to the NCAA.