The 2026 "China Cup" Overseas Chinese BA Friendly Match and Overseas Young Talents Gathering in Dongguan kick off

China News Service, Dongguan, November 14 (Reporter Zhang Lu) The 2026 "China Cup" Overseas Chinese BA Friendly Match (hereinafter referred to as the "match") and the gathering of overseas young talents in Dongguan officially opened in Dongguan on the 13th. This event attracted a total of 12 overseas Chinese youth teams and 120 players to participate.

Li Feng, Party Secretary and Chairman of the Guangdong Overseas Chinese Federation, and Chen Zhiwei, Member of the Standing Committee of the Dongguan Municipal Party Committee and Director of the United Front Work Department, attended the opening ceremony and delivered speeches. Nearly 200 guests, including the Guangdong Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese, relevant prefectures and cities in Guangdong Province, the United Front Work Department of the Dongguan Municipal Party Committee and the Dongguan Municipal "Five Overseas Chinese" Department, as well as overseas Chinese leaders and businessmen from Panama, Australia, the Netherlands, the United States, Argentina and other countries, and representatives of the overseas Chinese trade associations and chambers of commerce, attended the opening ceremony.

Li Feng said that the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area is advancing in depth, providing a rare opportunity for the vast number of young people in the overseas Chinese community to pursue their dreams and develop their businesses. This event uses basketball as a link and nostalgia as a bridge to build a platform for overseas Chinese youth to learn, communicate, innovate and start businesses. He sent a message to the young people in the overseas Chinese community to use football to make friends and deepen their feelings for home and country; to use the city as a matchmaker to understand the opportunities in Guangdong; to use overseas Chinese as a bridge to be good messengers of friendship.

Chen Zhiwei sincerely invites young friends to visit Dongguan and feel Dongguan’s industrial vitality and city charm. He expressed the hope that young people from the overseas Chinese community would use the ball as a medium to build a sense of solidarity, have in-depth visit experiences, understand China and Dongguan, introduce overseas innovative ideas and high-quality industrial resources to Dongguan, and build bridges in technical collaboration, project docking, people-to-people and cultural exchanges, etc., so as to inject the power of overseas Chinese into Dongguan's high-level opening up to the outside world.

At the opening ceremony, a Dongguan Enterprises Goods Exhibition was set up at the same time, focusing on displaying smart terminals, trendy toys, furniture, clothing, food and other high-quality "Made in Dongguan" products. Overseas Chinese businessmen and overseas Chinese youths communicated with Dongguan enterprises on-site, and got a closer look at Dongguan's local high-quality enterprises and their products.

According to reports, this event will be held for four days from November 13th to 16th. According to the schedule, the 12 participating teams will be divided into 4 groups and play a total of 16 games. The final champion will be officially decided on November 16.

During the event, the organizer will also organize youths from the overseas Chinese community to visit Dongguan Museum and other places to experience Dongguan’s historical depth, cultural warmth and industrial vitality.

It is understood that the "Huaxia Cup" Overseas Chinese BA Friendly Match has been held in Dongguan for two consecutive years and is integrated with the "Overseas Young Talents Gathering in Dongguan" brand event. It is an in-depth practice of the Dongguan Overseas Chinese Federation to take root in overseas Chinese affairs and innovate the exchange model of overseas Chinese. The event effectively built a platform for overseas Chinese youth to learn, exchange, socialize, and cooperate, further uniting overseas Chinese hearts, pooling overseas Chinese wisdom, and exerting overseas Chinese strength, and continued to inject new momentum from the overseas Chinese community into Dongguan's economic and social construction.

This event is hosted by the Guangdong Overseas Chinese Federation and hosted by the Dongguan Overseas Chinese Federation, the Dongguan Overseas Chinese Affairs Bureau, and the Guangdong Overseas Chinese Youth Federation. (over)