The China Masters is a World Tour Grade 2 Level 3 tournament. Held since 2005 as an annual badminton tournament in China. The China Masters is one of two HSBC BWF World Tour tournaments hosted in China annually, the other being the China Open, a HSBC BWF World Tour Super 1000 tournament.  

The China Masters became one of the BWF Superseries tournament 2007 - 2013 and in 2014 it became a BWF Grand Prix Gold. Since 2014, the tournament has been hosted alternately between the Olympic Sport Center Xincheng Gymnasium, Jiangsu and the Olympic Sport Center Xincheng Gymnasium, ChangZhou.  

The tournament fast became a popular international tournament and it has helped to provide a platform for emerging Chinese players to be tested amongst the world’s best. Since 2005 China players made a clean sweep of the five events ten out of seventeen times, always supported by the home crowd. Lin Dan holds the record of and individual / pair with six men’s single titles since 2005.