The 2026 Dongning City’s First Sino-Russian Youth Fighting Elite Tournament kicks off. Nearly 200 Chinese and Russian youths compete on the same stage.

China News Service, Mudanjiang, September 26 (Wang Wanxin) On the 26th, the 2026 Dongning City’s First Sino-Russian Youth Fighting Elite Tournament kicked off at the Dongning Sino-Russian Cultural and Sports Exchange Center. Nearly 200 young athletes from 26 teams from 21 cities in the two countries competed bravely for their dreams.

As the first Sino-Russian cross-border youth fighting event held in Dongning City, this event has high standards, wide coverage, and strong professionalism. It aims to use fighting sports as a link to build a bridge for Chinese and Russian youths to compete in skills, enhance friendship, and exchange cultures.

The 2026 Dongning City’s first Sino-Russian Youth Fighting Classic begins. Photo by Wang Wanxin

The event recruits outstanding players from all over the country, focusing on inviting top-ranked young boxing athletes in the country and champions of all-level boxing events in the province. It also invites Russian elite boxing athletes to cross-border competition, allowing the top young boxing forces of China and Russia to compete on the same stage and compete at the pinnacle.

The attraction of this event radiated to many cities in China and Russia, and finally brought together 26 teams from 21 cities in the two countries, and nearly 200 young athletes gathered in Dongning.

The event effectively complements the shortcomings of local youth high-quality events, tempers the competitive physique and will quality of young people, continues to enhance the visibility and influence of Dongning's foreign cultural and sports exchanges, and injects new vitality into the high-quality development of cultural and sports integration in border areas. (over)