Hangzhou 19th Asian Games Opening Ceremony on the evening of 23rd in Hangzhou Olympic Sports Center main stadium, 20:00 pm, the opening ceremony officially kicked off.

As the beginning of this competition, the Hangzhou Asian Games opening ceremony to "tide Asia" as the theme, implying that the new era of China is with Asia, the world mingled turbulence, like a wave rushing forward.

The opening ceremony is divided into three chapters: "National Style and Elegant Rhythm", "Tide of Qiantang" and "Hand in Hand", which will be emphasized by the tide of the national style, the tide of nature, the tide of science and technology, the tide of sports, the tide of digital, etc. The "tide" in the theme is the "tide of Asia". The theme of the word "tide" for specific interpretation.

According to the opening ceremony process, Hangzhou 19th Asian Games main torch lighting time at 21:28 or so, hundreds of millions of digital torchbearers and offline torchbearers will light the main torch.

This year's Asian Games, all 45 members of the Asian Olympic Council in Asia more than 12,000 athletes enrolled, plus technical officials, journalists and other total size of more than 30,000 people, a new record.

Hangzhou Asian Games to "green, intelligent, thrifty, civilized" as the concept of the games. In addition to the host city of Hangzhou, the Asian Games set up in Ningbo, Wenzhou, Huzhou, Shaoxing, Jinhua and other five co-host cities, a total of 56 competition venues, 31 independent training venues, as well as 1 Asian Games Village and 5 Asian Games sub-Village.

It is reported that the current Asian Games Chinese sports delegation totaled 1,329 people, 886 athletes (437 female athletes, 449 male athletes), including 36 Olympic champions. A total of 67 people have participated in the Rio Olympics, 201 people have participated in the Tokyo Olympics, 226 people have participated in the 2018 Jakarta Asian Games, and 630 people are participating in the Asian Games for the first time.

Compared to the 32 sports at the Paris Olympics, the Hangzhou Asian Games has as many as 40 sports, broken down into 61 sub-disciplines and 481 sub-sub-disciplines.The Chinese sports delegation will compete in 38 major sports and 407 minor sports, except kabaddi and cricket.