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In April 2019, the Shanghai International Circuit hosted the 1,000th<\/sup> Formula One Grand Prix. Little could drivers and fans have known, that it would be the last F1 race China would see until 2024.<\/h3>\n

Formula One is back in China for the first time in five years this weekend, the latest in a series of major sporting events to return after the restrictions of the pandemic years. F1 currently has an agreement to hold the Shanghai Grand Prix until 2025.<\/p>\n

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F1 owners Liberty Media see China as a key future growth market, and F1 CEO Stefano Domenicali has previously said<\/a> that a second Grand Prix race in China is \u201c100% realistic\u201d, with Guangdong being the rumoured second destination. Only two other countries have more than one race on this year\u2019s calendar: Italy with two and the US with three.<\/p>\n

The popularity of F1 in China has been boosted by the country\u2019s first F1 driver, Zhou Guanyu, who drives for Kick-Sauber\u2019s Stake F1 Team. Nevertheless, F1 is still very much a niche sport in China and Zhou is not yet a household name in his home country. This is something that he hopes to change with the release of a 90-minute documentary \u201cThe First One\u201d that tells of his race career so far.<\/p>\n

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The poster for F1 driver Zhou Guanyu’s autobiographical documetary, ‘The First One’. Photo: Instagram\/@zhouguanyu24<\/p><\/div>\n

Since the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games, China has welcomed back several major international sporting events, including the 19th<\/sup> Asian Games, the Shanghai Masters snooker tournament (featuring world number one English snooker player Ronnie O\u2019Sullivan), and the China Open tennis.<\/p>\n

China\u2019s General Administration of Sports has emphasised that sporting events have an important role to play in the country\u2019s economic development, with sporting events in Shanghai<\/a> alone generating RMB 3.71 billion (\u00a3411.6 million) of consumption value in 2023.<\/p>\n

Sporting events are also part of the Chinese government\u2019s wider efforts to lure visitors back to the country after the pandemic, which include visa-free travel<\/a> for citizens of an increasing number of countries and widened access to mobile payment options for foreigners<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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