Live: See how a baseball team of underprivileged kids celebrates CNY

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Featured in "Tough Out," a sports documentary, the Power Baseball Angels Charitable Baseball Camp is a special home for underprivileged Chinese boys and girls in Beijing run by former professional baseball players and coaches. For more than six years, the organization has opened its doors to orphaned children and those from impoverished backgrounds, teaching them to play baseball competitively while offering them free education and a roof over their head.

The Power Baseball Angels have won many youth baseball championships, including the 2017 Asia Pacific Zone Tournament sponsored by the Pony Baseball Association, and two Tsinghua University Yin Jiarui Cups.

The coaches and teachers pay much attention to their moral and mental development and treat the children like family.

"Baseball is a home bound sport – sort of speak," said coach and founder Sun Lingfeng. "For me it has come full circle, starting from the little field in Beijing to a bigger field and then back to the little field in Beijing."

The little league players typically celebrate Spring Festival in warmer weather in south China, but due to COVID-19, they will stay in Beijing this year. How will they celebrate this holiday and what are their Chinese New Year resolutions for the Year of the Ox? Join us live as CGTN's Li Jingjing and Oscar Margain visit the team in the outskirts of Beijing.

Reporters: Li Jingjing, Oscar Margain

Executive directors: Shi Xun, Song Xinyi

Videographer: Wu Hao

Editors: Shi Xun, Oscar Margain

Producers: Zhang Xiaohe, Li Xiang

Supervisor: Zhang Wan