The Rally China (中国拉力赛) is the largest

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event held in

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. The first event was run as the '' China Rally in 1997'' in the province of

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, as a replacement to the Hong Kong - Beijing Rally, and was an event on the

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(WRC) calendar in 1999. However it was replaced by the

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the following year. From 2000 to 2015, it has been part of the Asia Pacific Rally Championship (APRC), moving initially to

Shaoguan Shaoguan is a prefecture-level city in northern Guangdong Province ( Yuebei), South China, bordering Hunan to the northwest and Jiangxi to the northeast. It is home to the mummified remains of the sixth Zen Buddhist patriarch Huineng. Its built-u ...

province. ''"Force majeure because of government"'', according to the organisers, led to the cancellation of the event in 2003. The event moved for a single year to

Huizhou Huizhou ( zh, c= ) is a city in east-central Guangdong Province, China, forty-three miles north of Hong Kong. Huizhou borders the provincial capital of Guangzhou to the west, Shenzhen and Dongguan to the southwest, Shaoguan to the north, Hey ...

, Guangdong in 2004 before reverting to Shaoguan. From 2009 until 2015, the event was hosted in Longyou,

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province. The event returned to the WRC calendar in 2016 after moving to Huairou,

Beijing Beijing, Chinese postal romanization, previously romanized as Peking, is the capital city of China. With more than 22 million residents, it is the world's List of national capitals by population, most populous national capital city as well as ...

, but was cancelled due to weather damage. China will continue to host a round of the Asia-Pacific Rally Championship in

Zhangye Zhangye ( zh, s=张掖, t=張掖, p=Zhāngyè), Postal Map Romanization, formerly romanization of Chinese, romanized as Changyeh and also formerly known as Kanchow, is a prefecture-level city in central Gansu provinces of China, Province in the ...

Gansu Gansu is a provinces of China, province in Northwestern China. Its capital and largest city is Lanzhou, in the southeastern part of the province. The seventh-largest administrative district by area at , Gansu lies between the Tibetan Plateau, Ti ...

in 2016 too, while Longyou will continue to host a round of the Chinese Rally Championship.

List of previous winners

Rally China

References

Rally competitions in China

Recurring sporting events established in 1997 Recurring sporting events disestablished in 2016

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