/KOOC-0/97/KOOC-0/65438+/KOOC-0/From October 25th to February 3rd, Mr. Koji Goto, President of the Japanese Table Tennis Association, led a delegation to visit China and invited China to send a delegation to participate in the 3rd/KOOC-0/World Table Tennis Championships held in Nagoya. At that time, Comrade Mao Zedong, Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, gave instructions that "our team should go", and according to the complicated situation of the international community, he specifically instructed that "we should be prepared for the death of several people, and it is best not to die. You must be not afraid of suffering and death. " On March 10 and March 16, the Prime Minister of the State Council, Comrade Zhou Enlai, received all the members of the delegation twice and gave important instructions. Among them, "according to Chairman Mao's thought, we clearly put forward the policy of' friendship first, competition second'". This is the general process of the sports policy of "friendship first, competition second".