Hangzhou is ready to host a smart and safe Asian Games, which will officially open on Saturday(23^rd Sep 2023)

The Asian Games are a comprehensive sports event in Asia , organized by the Asian Olympic council (OCA) every four years. The first Asian Games were held in New Delhi, India in 1951. China has hosted two Asian Games in Beijing and Guangzhou in 1990 and 2010 respectively. Compared with other international comprehensive sports events, the Asian Games have non-Olympic sports

The Hangzhou Asian Games will be the largest comprehensive sports event in Asia ever, with 40 sports including 61 sub-ones and 481 gold medals to be awarded . There are symbolic sports representing Asia ,such as Wushu, sepaktakraw, cricket and jujitsu and emerging ones that are popular with the youth, such as skateboarding, sport climbing, esports and breaking with the latter two newly-introduced in this Games.

The Hangzhou Asian Games will showcase the diversity and inclusiveness of Asian sports culture. Boasting the West Lake and known as “ paradise on earth”.  Hangzhou is one of the birthplaces of Chinese silk, calligraphy painting, printing and seal cutting, and a city with artistic comception and innovative vitality, leading in the areas of internet, digital economy and intelligent manufacturing in China.

The Games’ three mascots –named Chenchen, Congcong and Lianlian, are three robots carrying cultural and modern connotations. The three represent the Liangzhu Archaeological Ruins, the West Lake and the Grand canal in Hangzhou respectively

The City and the green , intelligent cultural and civilized Asian Games are welcoming you