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China Open (badminton)

badminton championships

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ1073355 ↗
Source-derived summary

The China Open (Chinese: 中国羽毛球公开赛) is an annual badminton tournament held in People's Republic of China. It became part of the BWF Super Series tournaments in 2007. BWF categorised China Open as one of the three BWF World Tour Super 1000 events in the BWF events structure since 2018.

Locations

Twelve cities have been chosen to host the tournament.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “China Open (badminton)” as badminton championships. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around China, badminton and championships.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2007, 1000, 2018—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1986. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with China, badminton and championships providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “China Open (badminton)”, the useful work is to connect “badminton championships” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1073355. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2007, 1000 and 2018.

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This entry incorporates text from “China Open (badminton)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.