Lao Zhang, Zhang Jilong, is currently the sports minister of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Organizing Committee and a member of the organizing committee of the 2006 FIFA World Cup. He made great efforts for the legal status of China Football Association in FIFA, and expanded the international exchanges and cooperation between China Football Association. Together with other comrades of the Football Association, he did a lot of work to establish the first professional football league in China and won the right to host the 2004 Asian Football Championship. He used to be the full-time vice chairman of China Football Association and the vice chairman of Asian Football Federation.