With a commitment to establishingOingdao as a“Sailing City’ and a sportshub, the 16th Qingdao Internationa!Sailing Week & Oingdao InternationaMarine Festival, along with the inauguralChina(Oingdao)International MarineSports Conference, is being held fromSeptember 6 to 23,2024. Jointly hosted by the Water Sports AdministrativeCenter of the General Administration ofSport of China, the Beijing Olympic CityDevelopment Association, the ChineseYachting Association, the Shandong Pro.vincial Sports Bureau, and the QingdaoMunicipal Government, with support from the Asian Rowing Federation, theChinese Canoe Association, the ChineseRowing Association, and the Chinese Water Skiing, Diving and Motorboat SportsFederation, the event features more than30 competitions and cultural exchanges across seven key segments: sailingevents, marine sports competitions, beachfashion sports, Olympic sailing culturalexchanges, cultural ceremonies, marineindustries, and public sailing promotion.igniting Qingdao's summer with the ex.citement of fashionable sailing sports.

Using marine sports as a medium.the event aims to build an international platform for marine sports exchange,enhancing the city's global influenceand visibility. By hosting seven marinesports competitions at national level andabove, including motorboating, paddle.boarding, motosurfing, coastal rowing.kayaking, beach volleyball, and sepaktakraw, as well as a series of internation.al marine sports exchange events, thefestival not only delivers more sportingexcitement and joy to the people of Oin-gdao, but also injects new opportunitiesand vitality into industries such as sportsconsumption, cultural tourism, dining.and trade.