The history of the CBA was marked by a "Hung Kuo dynasty" (宏國王朝) where the Elephants won three consecutive championships.
The champion team and runner-up of each year are listed below: Caught in the economic turbulence of the late 1990s, the corporate owners/sponsors of various CBA clubs decided to withdraw from professional sports.
At the turn of the 20th century, only two out of the six clubs that had participated in the CBA, namely, Yulon and Dacin, had managed to survive with the original organizations.
In implementing this, however, players with "Chinese consanguinity" (華裔球員) -- however vague such definition was—could be regarded as if they were local upon consensus among all member clubs.
Beginning from the CBA Fourth Year, however, non-Chinese imports were divided into the "bigger" and the "smaller" categories by height.