On 13 October, Consul-General Fang Xinwen attended the season launch ceremony of the Geelong Venom women’s basketball team, joining the team’s management, coaches, players and representatives of the local sporting community to celebrate the start of the new Women’s National Basketball League (WNBL) season. Ella George MP, City Councillor of Greater Geelong Chris Burson attended the event.

At the ceremony, Consul-General Fang extended his warm congratulations to the Geelong Venom on the launch of their new season and wished the Geelong Venom every success in the upcoming season. He positively commented on the Chinese basketball player Han Xu and Zhang Wanglai joining the Geelong Venom and hope to see more new progress in people-to-people sporting exchanges between China and Australia.

The team expressed its appreciation to Consul-General Fang for attending the ceremony and looked forward to further strengthening sporting and cultural exchanges between the local Geelong community and China.

On October 16, Consul General Fang also watched the game between the Sydney Flames and the Melbourne Flyers in Melbourne, during which he had a warm exchange with Chinese women's basketball players Yang Shuyu and Wang Siyu, who have recently joined the two teams respectively.