Cities in China that have hosted the Olympics and Asian Games

As of 2023, the cities in China that have hosted the Olympic Games and Asian Games are the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the 1990 Beijing Asian Games, the 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games, and the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou.

1. 2008 Beijing Olympics

The 29th Summer Olympic Games (Beijing2008; Games of the XXIX Olympiad), also known as the 2008 Beijing Olympics, opened at 8:00 p.m. sharp on August 8, 2008 in the Beijing, the capital of China, opened at 8:00 p.m. on August 8, 2008, and closed on August 24th.

The host city of the 2008 Beijing Olympics was Beijing, with Shanghai, Tianjin, Shenyang, Qinhuangdao and Qingdao as co-host cities. Hong Kong hosted the equestrian events. 2008 Beijing Olympic Games *** There were 204 participating countries and regions, 11,438 athletes, 28 major sports, 302 minor sports, *** More than 60,000 athletes, coaches and officials to participate.

2. 1990 Beijing Asian Games

The 11th Asian Games was held on September 22 - October 7, 1990 in Beijing, China. It was the first comprehensive international sports competition organized by China. 6,578 athletic delegations from 37 countries and regions that are members of the OCA took part in these Asian Games. China sent 636 athletes to compete in all 27 sports and two performance events.

3. 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games

The 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games was the 16th Asian Games. The games were held from November 12 to November 27, 2010 in Guangzhou, China (co-hosted by Shanwei, Foshan and Dongguan).

Guangzhou was the second city in China to receive the right to host the Asian Games after Beijing. The games*** feature 42 competition events, including 26 Olympic and 16 non-Olympic events.

4, Hangzhou 19th Asian Games

Hangzhou 19th Asian Games (The19th Asian Games), also known as the "2022 Hangzhou Asian Games", is the third Asian Games to be held in China, following the 1990 Asian Games in Beijing and the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou.

The 19th Asian Games, also known as the "2022 Hangzhou Asian Games", is the third time that China has hosted Asia's highest-profile international comprehensive sports event after the 1990 Beijing Asian Games and 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games.

On July 19, 2022, the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) announced that the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou 2022, which was originally scheduled to be held from September 10 to 25, 2022, would be held from September 23 to October 8, 2023, with the name of the event and the logo remaining unchanged.

Hangzhou Asian Games competition program is set as follows: 40 big items, 61 sub-items, 481 small items. 40 competition items include 31 Olympic items and 9 non-Olympic items, at the same time, under the premise of maintaining the 40 big items unchanged, the addition of e-sports, breakdancing two competition items. Hangzhou Asian Games will give birth to 481 gold medals.

Hangzhou 19th Asian Games event program

Hangzhou Asian Games *** there are 40 big items, 61 sub-items, 481 small items, will be born 481 gold medals. Project settings include the vast majority of the Olympic Games project as well as wushu, rattan ball, cricket, gram jujitsu, jujitsu and other sports and cultural characteristics of various regions in Asia, but also set up skateboarding, rock climbing, e-sports and other young people's favorite emerging projects.

There are 40 major competitions: swimming, archery, track and field, badminton, basketball, boxing, canoeing, cycling, equestrian, fencing, soccer, golf, gymnastics, handball, field hockey, judo, modern pentathlon, rowing, rugby sevens, sailing, shooting, table tennis, taekwondo, tennis, triathlon.

31 Olympic sports in volleyball, weightlifting, wrestling, karate, rock climbing, baseball and softball, and nine non-Olympic sports in wushu, rattan, ketsu jujitsu, jiu-jitsu, cricket, chess, roller-skating, kabaddi and squash. (Of these, three major competition disciplines - karate, competitive rock climbing, and baseball and softball - were proposed to be added by the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Organizing Committee.)

In December 2020, the 39th OCA Plenary Session announced the addition of eSports and Breakdancing to the 40 sports. This is the first time that e-sports and breakdancing have been included in the official competition program of the Asian Games, with e-sports as an "intellectual sport" and breakdancing as a "sports dance".

November 5, 2021, the Hangzhou Asian Games Organizing Committee officially announced the Hangzhou Asian Games e-sports small items set. Hangzhou 2022 Asian Games e-sports program set League of Legends, King of Glory (Asian Games version), Peace Elite (Asian Games version), Hearthstone Legends, Tower of Blades 2, Dream of the Three Kingdoms 2, Street Fighter 5 and FIFA Online4 and other eight items.

March 16, 2023, by the Olympic Council of Asia's fifth Coordination Committee meeting to consider the decision to cancel the Legend of Hearthstone project settings, Hangzhou Asian Games e-sports set up seven competitions.

On May 6, 2023, at the request of Taiwan's sports community, the mainland authorities successfully coordinated the inclusion of baseball in the Hangzhou Asian Games official competition events.

On August 14, 2023, the Hangzhou Asian Games Organizing Committee decided to give the cancellation of the men's figure skating singles skating and mixed figure skating pairs dance two sub-items of the roller skating program.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia - 2008 Beijing Olympic Games

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia - 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou