Recently, the Badminton World Federation (BWF) announced that the BWF World Tour Finals 2023-2026 will be staged in Hangzhou. This year's event will be held on December 13-17.

The finals are the highest-level event in the tour series. Only the top eight players in each individual event's annual world rankings are eligible to participate in such competitions.

BWF Secretary General Thomas Lund thanked Chinese Badminton Association (CBA) and the Hangzhou City Government for their commitment to the sport.

"It is with great excitement to confirm Hangzhou, China as the host of our flagship HSBC BWF World Tour Finals for this cycle," Lund said.

"Badminton is one of the fastest-growing sports in the world with all-time high participation and fan numbers and Hangzhou with its superb sporting infrastructure and experience in staging elite international events is an ideal host for our finals."

This will be the first international top event held in Hangzhou after Hangzhou Asian Games. At that time, Hangzhou will attract the global attention again and move towards the city of international events.