Yup, thanks to his impressive performance early this year in All England and India Superseries to knock out some elite players. China 4th MS (Qiao Bin) has wide gap with those leading roles but they have no other choice since Wang ZM is unreliable too, his worst outing at Thomas Cup qualification in February forced CHN team to exclude him
He should instead consider changing of career! Seems hopeless in China's badminton, or my advice, if he wanna remain in badminton, migrate to other country I think Bao Chunlai still did better than him in his latest year.
Yup, quite unfortunate for Xue Song, be stopped when his performance was on rising! I hope he will fully recover in time and does catch-up again. Hopefully fate won't be cruel to him to decline his opportunity as did happen to Wang Lin, Wang Xin and Wang Xiaoli...