After 12 years, the Chinese women's volleyball team again reached the Olympic final in 2016. They were now coached by Lang Ping, a stalwart of the 1980s Chinese women's team, who won consecutive World Championships from 1981 to 1985.

Chinese women's volleyball team from the first world championship in 1981 to the life-and-death battle between China and Brazil at the 2016 Rio Olympics, and interprets the legendary experience of generations of women's volleyball players who have gone through ups and downs but have always been indomitable and constantly fighting.