KUNMING, Southwest China, May 18 (Xinhua) -- To break the world record in the Olympic sports, for most athletes, looks like an mission impossible. But for the less known disabled sportsmen and sportswomen throughout the world, the records fall like ripe grapes, even in the national games.

During the first five-day competition, the Chinese disabled athletes have surpassed a total of 66 world records and broken 278 national marks in the ongoing 7th Chinese National Games for the Disabled, being hosted by Kunming, the capital of China's southwest Yunnan province, and neighboring city of Yuxi.

From the 488 finals competed, the Chinese athletes also levelled two world records and scored 75 marks, enough to win the gold medals at the 2006 world championships.

Such a great performance from the National Games becomes both a surprise to most people and a sure bet for the Chinese athletes for the Beijing Paralympics in 2008.

A foul cry is being reasonably raised into the consciousness, but the local organizing committee of the National Games has made every effort possible to rule out any act of cheating by introducing the doping-control measures for the first time for the Games of the kind, and so far no such cases have been found, with an exception of a deaf footballer, in one of the three non-Paralympic sports, being disqualified Thursday for ineligibility.

"The anti-doping measures are both strict and wide, all athletes are open to tests before the Games and during the competitions," an official of the doping-control commission of the Games said, adding that "those who broke the world records and hopefuls for the national teams are the sure subjects for doping tests."

Zhao Sujing, an assistant to the director of the Chinese Paralympic Sports Administrative Center, gave an explicit insight into the success of the Chinese disabled athletes.

In an interview with Xinhua on Thursday, Zhao said that "the main reason for so many world records broken is because the previous records were far away from the utmost as the sports for the disabled are still on the budding process throughout the world."

Only since 1988, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) decided to stage the Summer Olympics and the Summer Paralympics in the same hosting city. Two years later, the IOC and the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) reached an agreement, requesting any city to bid for both the Summer Olympics and the Summer Paralympics all together.

"The sports for the disabled enjoyed an overall boost only during the past years with more attention being paid and more and more athletes involved in the world," said the Chinese official.

It's also a case in China, with the first National Games for the Disabled attracting only 800 athletes for four sports, and the ongoing 7th Games featuring 2,251 athletes in 20 sports, including three non-Paralympic sports of badminton, football for the deaf and basketball for the deaf.

Zhao further explained that China also reaped great successes in the past years as teams of disabled athletes have been set up in every county, city and province to pave the way for the echelon of selection for the disabled athletes throughout the country, which has a population of some two million disabled who engaged in sports activities.

Such a vast resources ensure much more success for the Chinese disabled athletes, who broke 95 world records and 447 national records in the 6th National Games, and stood atop of the gold and overall medal tally for the first time in the Athens Olympics.

The medical classification, a unique measure introduced to the sports for the disabled, ensures both fair play and much more wider range of events for the disabled athletes, which also explains the fact that so many world records have been broken time and again, said Zhao.

The 7th Chinese National Games for the Disabled has 645 gold medals on offer in 20 sports, a striking contrast against the 301 events staged in the Athens Olympic Games.