Striker Elkeson of Guangzhou Evergrande was named the best player of the 2014 Chinese -Super League (CSL) season.
The Brazilian was the top scorer in the CSL with 28 goals Noah Spence Buccaneers Jersey , breaking the record of 26 goals in one season set by former Shandong Luneng forward Li Jinyu in 2006.
Elkeson's club Evergrande, winners of the 2014 season, were crowned the best team.
Though Beijing Guoan finished as the runners-up, coach Gregio Manzano won the best coach award, beating Evergrande's Marcello Lippi.
Manzano led his team to a win and a draw against Evergrande when the two sides met in the league.
Forward Wu Lei of Shanghai East Asia defended his title by bagging his second best domestic scorer award with 12 goals. Wu outscored domestic players last year in his debut year in the CSL with 15 goals. The 23-year-old is already eyeing a move to a Bundesliga side in Germany.
"I'm always hoping to move abroad one day Vernon Hargreaves III Buccaneers Jersey , considering things are uncertain at the club," Wu told the Global Times during the award ceremony at Tsinghua University in Beijing on Thursday. "My first choice is a Bundesliga side."
But Wu admitted he doesn't have the deciding call on his transfer.
Wu paid tribute to his mentor Xu Genbao, who Wu described as a "father" both on and off the pitch.
Xu, the man at the helm of East Asia, sold the club - which he cultivated for more than a decade since establishing the Genbao Football Academy in 2001 - to the Shanghai International Port Group Kendell Beckwith Buccaneers Jersey , sponsor of East Asia since 2013, for a reported 200 million yuan ($32.7 million) deal after the season.
Rumor has it that current Guangzhou R&F coach and former England national team coach Sven-Goran Eriksson will take the reins of East Asia.
Founded in 2005 in China's third-tier league, East Asia finished their first season in the CSL with a fifth-place finish last year, but failed to move forward and finished this season in fifth again.
The 2014 season also saw many excellent debutants such as 21-year-old Liao Lisheng of Evergrande, Li Ang of Jiangsu Sainty and Liu Binbin of Shandong Luneng Chris Godwin Buccaneers Jersey , in the top league, with winger Liu taking the rising star award.
Luneng and Sainty will have a Chinese FA Cup final showdown on Sunday to decide who deserve a berth at next year's Asian Champions League.
Dalian Aerbin and Harbin Yiteng were relegated this season, but their fans earned much credit due to their extraordinary loyalty.
Henan Jianye and Hangzhou Greentown won the fair play award thanks to their low record of receiving cards.
Ahead of the award ceremony, an exhibition game, featuring CSL stars from the North and the South Justin Evans Buccaneers Jersey , was played at Tsinghua University.
Veteran Li Weifeng of Tianjin Teda, former captain of the Chinese national soccer team, said the game could bring a lot of joy to children, encouraging them to play rather than "looking at their phones and iPads at home."
Liu Xianran (third left), Tsinghua University graduate and 22-year-old business owner O. J. Howard Buccaneers Jersey , takes a group photo with his team. Liu is one of China’s younger generation looking to make fortunes from the booming Internet industry. WANG ZHUANGFEI CHINA DAILY
Young Chinese entrepreneurs are tapping opportunities from the Internet to realize their world-changing dreams, reports Peng Yining in Beijing.
When China was first connected to the Internet in 1994, Liu Xianran was 2.
At the age of 8, Liu had his first computer and was fascinated with cyberspace as he played computer games.
Now the 22-year-old wants to earn his first pot of gold in China's booming Internet business and, maybe Carlton Davis Buccaneers Jersey , change the world.
When Liu, who majored in chemical engineering, graduated recently from the elite Tsinghua University, he gave up offers of well-paid jobs from consulting firms and developed an education smartphone application with his schoolmates in a rented apartment in Beijing.
"If I took the offers, I would be earning more than a million yuan annually in five years. But my dream is bigger than being a millionaire M.J. Stewart Buccaneers Jersey ," Liu said.
"I want to make our world a better place by doing what I am interested in and make a fortune."
The Internet has given Chinese in their 20s like Liu great opportunities to start their own business and strike it rich, said Zhang Yichi, professor at Guanghua School of Management of Peking University and director of the school's Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
Thanks to the Internet, there are fewer upfront costs for young business owners, Zhang said.
Unlike traditional industries Ronald Jones II Buccaneers Jersey , Internet companies can build websites, host conference calls and launch online marketing campaigns, all on a shoestring budget.
Open-source software can also reduce or eliminate the need for consultants and tech support.
"For people who are under 25, it is the golden age to start their own business," Zhang said.
"They have the opportunity and character that other generations don't have."
It cost Liu less than 100 Vita Vea Buccaneers Jersey ,000 yuan to found his first company. Most of the money was spent on renting the two-bedroom apartment where Liu and his team live and work.
The sole female team member takes up one bedroom while Liu and three other men take the other one. Two of the men use a bunk bed and the 22-year-old CEO shares a double bed with another member.
Laptops and power cables take over the 10-square-meter living room, which they call an office. Posters of their smartphone app, colorful notes of ideas and take-out menus are pasted all over the walls.
The team's English-learning app enables users to upload their English speaking samples through their smartphones and receive feedback from native English-speaking teachers to improve their spoken English.
Two weeks after the app was put online, the system nearly crashed because too many users got on board.