The National Peasants' Games (simplified Chinese: 中华人民共和国农民运动会; traditional Chinese: 中華人民共和國農民運動會; pinyin: Zhōnghuá Rénmín Gònghéguó Nóngmín Yùndònghuì) are a quadrennial multi-sport event in China in which competitors from among the country's 750 million rural residents take part in sports, both conventional - including basketball, athletics, table tennis, shooting, xiangqi (Chinese chess) and t'ai chi, and traditional rural and Chinese activities, such as wushu, dragon boat racing, lion dancing, tyre pushing, food-carrying, rice planting, kite flying, jianzi (kick shuttlecock) and tug of war. All of China's 31 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities, as well as Taiwan, are represented. Hong Kong and Macau usually send observer delegations.