Sport | Rugby sevens |
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First season | 2001 |
No. of teams | 12 |
Most recent champion(s) | Hong Kong (2019) |
The China Sevens, most recently hosted in Huizhou, is an international rugby sevens tournament contested by national teams. The inaugural event, held in Shanghai, was a leg of the IRB World Sevens Series in 2001. The tournament moved to Beijing for 2002.
From 2009 to 2012 the tournament returned to Shanghai as an official event within the Asian Sevens Series.[1] The event was hosted at the Chaoyang Stadium in Beijing for 2014,[2] then Qingdao in 2015 and Huizhou in 2019.