The head coach of Chinese table tennis is Qin Zhijian.

Qin Zhijian, born in Shanghai in 1963, is a Chinese table tennis player and coach. He is currently the head coach of the men's team of the Chinese table tennis team. In 1982, Qin Zhijian joined the Shanghai team and became teammates with Liu Guoliang and Kong Linghui. In 1985, he entered the national first team. In 1994, he won the mixed doubles runner-up at the World Table Tennis Championships in Dortmund. In 1995, he won the mixed doubles championship at the Tianjin World Table Tennis Championships.

In 1996, he won the mixed doubles championship at the Atlanta Olympics. In 1997, Qin Zhijian announced his retirement and later served as an associate professor at Shanghai Institute of Sport. In 2002, he served as the deputy head coach of the Chinese men's table tennis team; in the same year, he served as the head coach of the national men's table tennis team.

As a coach, Qin Zhijian has led the Chinese men's table tennis team to win many honors. These include the men's singles championship at the 2004 Athens Olympics, the men's singles championship at the 2005 Shanghai World Championships, and the men's team championship at the 2006 World Championships in Bremen.

Other coaches of China’s table tennis team:

The leader of the first team of the men’s table tennis team is Liu Guozheng, and the coaches of the first team are Wang Hao, Chen Qi, Liu Zhiqiang, Liu Heng, and Zhang Yang; The leader of the second team is Chen Zhenjiang, and the coaches of the second team are Yu Yang and Wang Jianjun.

The leader of the first team of the women’s team is Ma Lin, and the coaches of the first team are Xiao Zhan, Huang Haicheng, Guo Yan, Qiu Yike, and Ma Junfeng; the leader of the second team is Yan Sen, and the coaches of the second team are Li Dacheng, Zhu Wentao, Wang Xiang.

The new national table tennis team adopts the dual-track responsibility system of head coach and team leader for the first time, but the head coach is the first responsible person and the team leader is the second responsible person. In the points assessment standard, the full score for nine competitions is 18,000 points. When the team scores more than 14,000 points, the head coach and team leader will be rewarded at the same time; when the team scores less than 12,000 points, the head coach and team leader will be punished at the same time.