体坛英语新闻：Kungfu dreams in world's "Olympics of martial arts"

As effective fitness exercises with rich traditional culture, Chinese martial arts has attracted more and more foreigners with "Kungfu dreams" to come to China and learn it in recent years.

Every year, more than 5,000 world's Wushu lovers swarmed to Wudang for learning Wushu, according to the Wudang Boxing study Association.

"We have received a lot of Wushu lovers from nearly 30 countries during these years, many of them coming in groups and staying at Wudang for several months and years," said Yue Wu, deputy chairman of Shiyan Wushu Association, also a master of Wudang Wushu.

As a coach of Italian Wushu Federation, the 60-year-old Manca Giancarlo has practised martial arts for 40 years. Twenty years ago, he, nicknamed as "Boxing Champion of Mediterranean", gave up boxing and became a Kungfu fan after touching Wushu occasionally.

From then on, he stepped on the Wudang Mountain each year to learn Wudang Wushu. Now, he has opened more than ten Wushu schools in Rome, Milan, Florence and Sicily, with more than 2,000 students scattering over the Europe.

"Compared with some fighting sports like boxing, martial arts pay more attention to the body building, and the harmony between the inner part and the outside world," Manca Giancarlo said.

"Wushu is not only the treasure of China, but the heritage of the world. I teach Wushu to spread the Chinese civilization and help more people live a healthy life," he added.

The 26-year-old JeffReid, an American young man, came to China alone to learn Kungfu in 2007. He planned to spend eight years mastering Wushu in China.

"The martial arts give me a healthy body and great joy. I dream of showing Americans the real Kungfu," he said.