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"No other club cooperation in China," promised Cramer, who has led BVB's sales and marketing departments since October 2010.
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Shandong Luneng has been coached by German manager Felix Magath since June 2016, who is famous for leading Bayern Munich to two consecutive Bundesliga titles from 2004 to 2006.
BVB finished second in the 2015-2016 Bundesliga season, and third last season. However, it reaped the German Cup in 2016-2017 season. All the recent success helped it acquire a large followers in China, which may be utilized in terms of market development.
Cramer admitted that the partnership with football club like Luneng is a very important step into the Chinese market for BVB.
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BVB was invited to play the International Champions Cup in China for the first time last year. BVB certainly wanted to lift its profile in the Chinese market.
"Without a partnership with a club, I am very sure that we can't reach the credibility in the population of China," according to Cramer, who is confident about the partnership.
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BEIJING, Sept. 4 (Xinhua) -- As China marked the 68th anniversary of its victory in the Anti-Japanese War (1937-1945), one Chinese family's reflections on Japan were markedly mixed.
While veteran Zhang Lizhi was immersed in bitter wartime memories, the attitude of his grandson, Liu Pinran Nike Air Max Sale Clearance , was profoundly affected by a recent exchange program that allowed him to visit Japan together with other Asian students majoring in international relations.
"My hatred fades, but never my memories," said 94-year-old Zhang.
Born in 1919 in Juxian County of east China's Shandong Province, he joined the army as a teen to fight the Japanese who invaded China in 1937.
"There was no choice, even for a teenager like me. It was my duty to defend my motherland," he believes.
Of all his wartime souvenirs, including a scar left by a bullet passing through his left palm Air Max TN Sale Clearance , he most cherishes a sepia picture in which four young armymen in winter uniforms stand solemnly.
The picture was taken in the autumn of 1944, when Zhang and his fellow soldiers of the Communist Party of China survived a raid by Japanese troops in Shandong.
The war was seven years old by then. As news of territory recovery and Japanese retreat reached their camp, Zhang and his friends felt with great confidence that the war was close to its end.
"But two of them were killed by the Japanese just a few days after the photo was taken. One was shot to death, the other was buried alive," recalled Zhang.
This episode of Zhang's wartime story has also became unforgettable to Liu Pinran, a postgraduate majored in international relations at the prestigious Peking University. He grew up hearing his grandfather tell the tale behind the image "countless times."
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Despite close economic ties, memories of Japanese militarism run deep in China, which had 21 million civilians and soldiers killed and 14 million others injured in the war.
The feelings of Zhang's generation are more or less carried on by Chinese youngsters nowadays, amid renewed tensions following the Japanese government's unilateral move in September 2012 to "nationalize" part of the Diaoyu Islands, which have been Chinese territory since ancient times.
Japanese cabinet members' worshipping of the war-linked Yasukuni Shrine on Aug. 15, the day of Japan's surrender at the end of World War II, further strained the two countries' already tense relations.
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"I heard a lot about Japan and the war since I was a kid, but little of it came from the Japanese themselves," he explained.
Like many of his peers, Liu has built his knowledge of Japan and the eight-year war mostly from textbooks and TV. But unlike others, he has heard some different views on Japan within his family since he was a kid.
His youngest uncle, Liu Xing, studied mechanical engineering at Kobe University and later worked for a Japanese firm in the 1990s.
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"My uncle often told the family that Japan was an advanced country with polite people," said Liu Pinran. "Actually, my first impression about Japan was from the toy cars he brought me from there. I liked them so much and showed them off to my friends."
Confused by the family.