Spearheaded by 36 Olympic champions, a total of 886 Chinese athletes will compete across 407 medal events of the total 481 to be contested in Hangzhou and the five co-host cities in Zhejiang. Crucially, 74 Olympic qualification berths for next year's Paris Games are up for grabs in nine sports, including artistic swimming, breaking, tennis and water polo.

Having topped the Asian Games medal table 10 times in a row since the 1982 edition in India, the Chinese delegation is set to go all out to extend its dominance on home soil, while using the quadrennial event to facilitate its preparations for Paris 2024.