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LOCATOR: BEIJINGThese Chinese men are working out in an old bicycle shedSome of their equipment is made out of scrap metal from a factory The walls feature bodybuilders from the 1980s and 1990sNAME: XU WEI, MANAGER, ERQI GYM CLUB"These are all the world champions. Look, this one and this one, they are all of our goals. We spent several nights pasting these on the wall to make our space more beautiful and to set goals."The gym was founded in 1984 one year after a government ban on bodybuilding was lifted The Communist Party had thought the sport 'bourgeois'The gym has never closed in its near 40-year history