China will again present a double-gender FIVB Xiamen 3-Star event on April 20-23. It will be the fifth consecutive year that Xiamen has hosted a FIVB World Tour event.

 

China will also host the FIVB U-21 World Championships in Nanjing from July 11 to 16 and a 3-star World Tour event in Qinzhou from October 11 to 15.

 

Men’s champion duo in Xiamen last year was Spain’s Adrian Gavira/Pablo Herrera while women’s champion team last year in Xiamen was Switzerland’s Isabelle Forrer/Anouk Verge-Depre.

 

Xiamen is one of eight Chinese cities to host an international FIVB beach volleyball event. Others have been Beijing, Dalian, Fuzhou, Lianyungang, Maoming, Sanya and Shanghai.

 

China has hosted 57 FIVB World Tour events through 2016, including 24 men’s and 33 women’s tournaments. Host country China has won 19 previous medals on its country’s soil, including two men’s silver medals, six women’s gold medals, seven women’s silver medals, and five women’s bronze medals.

 

Xiamen, also known as Amoy, is a major city on the southeast (Taiwan Strait) coast of the People's Republic of China. It is administered as a sub-provincial city of Fujian province with a population of 3.67 million.

 

Xiamen was a treaty port in the 19th century and one of the four original Special Economic Zones opened to foreign investment and trade when China began economic reforms in the early 1980s. In 2006, Xiamen was ranked as China's second "most suitable city for living", as well as China's "most romantic leisure city" in 2011.