Chinese kung fu boasts versatile functions such as moral cultivation, offence and defense, health improvement, curative and artistic effects.

Chinese kung fu develops in numerous schools in different styles with their own uniqueness, some emphasizing the use of fists and hand techniques while others preferring leg techniques and foot works, with sword, spear, broadsword or cudgel as their common weapons.

To promote the popularity of kung fu, Beauty Media Inc and Chinese People¡¯s Sports Publishing House have cooperatively produced and distributed since 1995 more than 200 kung fu video programs which are equal to 400 hours in total length, covering 7 leading kung fu schools. The most popular one is the tai chi quan of various styles, which has, for over 100 years throughout the world, enjoyed a good reputation of protective and curative effects on chronicle diseases such as neuradynamia, pneumonia, heart attacks, hypertension, pulmonary tuberculosis and tracheitis. Tai chi quan is easy to learn and both the young and the old in health improvement. Another series is shao lin boxing, which wins its fame for its quick and hard movements, especially for its offensive and defensive functions. What is also worth mentioning is wing chun quan (yong chun), which is well known all over the world through the display by Jackie Chen and Bruce Lee in action movies. Xing yi quan is created by imitating the movements of birds or animals. Bagua (eight diagrams) palm boxing is played as nimbly as a flying dragon and with unpredictable attacks, which has also been included in the project. Others which should be introduced are chuojiao fanzi ( tumbling boxing), white-ape-back-through boxing, slim chopping broadsword, zha-style boxing, mizing boxing, three-emporors-cannom boxing, and open-door-eight-extremities boxing.