The China Open 9-Ball Championship is a professional nine-ball pool tournament held annually since 2009. The event is held in Shanghai, China.
Events in the China Open are played firstly in a double-elimination tournament, with a race to nine . As soon as only 32 players are left in the tournament the event transitions into a single-elimination tournament and race to 11 racks. In the women's events, the racks are shortened to races to seven and nine respectively.
The winner of the men's tournament receives $40,000, with the total prize money distributed at the men's tournament was different for the individual tournaments. $134,000 was awarded in 2010, $195,200 in 2014. The winner of the women's tournament receives since 2011 $30,000 US dollars, previously it was initially $25,000, then $26,000. Overall, the women's 2014 prize money of $138,000 US dollars was distributed, in 2009, however, only $75,000.