Badminton is huge in China. Average university students will whip people's asses. There's huge sports complexes here just for badminton and table tennis as well as outdoor badminton courts in every single apartment complex.
In fact a guy I work with was looking for new apartments and chose his based on how many badminton courts they had.
When I see people training, they seem to just do lots of wind sprints and play endless games of badminton.
I never really tried playing other than just going outbid the alley during a nice Evening and hitting the shuttlecock back and forth with my wife.
Pretty cool to watch really good people
Play. A student actually gave me a super nice yonex Raquet but I haven't used it.