A table tennis gold medal will be worth more than its weight in gold for Hong Kong at next month's China National Games in Shanghai.
Hong Kong's table tennis players have been given an added incentive to perform in Shanghai with 36 taels of gold (about $108,000) on offer for a gold-medal winner.
Conrowa Electric Appliances, the company sponsoring the Hong Kong team, and Tony Yu, chairman of the Hong Kong Table Tennis Association, have joined forces to finance the scheme.
A silver medal will be worth 14 taels, while a bronze will earn 12 taels. A fourth-place result will be rewarded to the tune of 10 taels.
The sponsor and Yu will split the costs equally.
The National Games table tennis team competition will start on October 9, three days before the opening ceremony, while the individual events begin on October 14.
Hong Kong's best hopes of medals will be in the women's team event and the women's singles, through Chai Po-wa and Chan Tan-lui.