<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">China's basketball star Yao Ming and Olympic 110m hurdles champion Liu Xiang have been included in the second edition of the Encyclopedia of China, which will be published this year, sources with the Encyclopedia of China Publishing House said. Liu Hang, main editor of the encyclopedia said the editors had a hot discussion about whom is to be included in the volume of figures. At last they reached the consensus of "choosing the typical characters with a great influence in their own fields and also to the history," Liu said. Director Zhang Yimou and China's first astronaut Yang Liwei have also been included, while Yi Zhongtian, a currently popular TV lecturer and Wang Shuo, a writer whose words and behaviors have recently triggered fierce debate among netizens have been denied by the book, he said.</div> Source
