Hosted by China Anti-Doping Agency (CHINADA) and World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Asia/Oceania Office, undertaken by Sports Bureau of Zhejiang Province, co-organized by Hangzhou Asian Games Organising Committee and the Anti-Doping Branch of the China Sport Science Society, the 3rd CHINADA international anti-doping symposium was held on 24th-25th September 2023 in Hangzhou, the host city of the 19th Asian Games.

With the theme of Reinforce Governance Capability of NADOs (National Anti-Doping Organizations), the symposium aimed to share the experience and explore the best practice of governance capability building of NADOs, and work together towards the common goal of harmonizing and strengthening the world anti-doping program.

Li Yingchuan, Vice Minister of General Administration of Sport of China (GASC), pointed out that Chinese Government had always attached great importance to anti-doping cause, adhered to the “zero occurrence” and “zero tolerance” of doping, and strengthened the awareness of “win moral, noble and clean medals”. China was committed to actively participating in international communication and had made achievements, earnestly fulfilling its responsibilities and international obligations as a major country, Li said.

Witold Bańka, President of WADA, said that anti-doping can not proceed without multi-party cooperation. He was grateful to CHINADA for its efforts as a partner, and also introduced WADA’s collaborative projects in recent years with other stakeholders.

Li Zhiquan, Director General of CHINADA, thanked worldwide anti-doping colleagues for their cooperation with CHINADA in recent years. He also hoped that this symposium could share CHINADA’s achievements and experience in organizational system construction, testing, education, legislation and other aspects.

In keynote speech, WADA Vice President Yang Yang said that education, as well as engagement of people who surround athletes, were two essential ways to better implement athlete-oriented anti-doping work. WADA Director General Olivier Niggli, International Testing Agency (ITA) Director General Benjamin Cohen and CHINADA Director General Li Zhiquan showed basic situation and working progress of WADA, ITA and CHINADA respectively.

WADA, Institute of National Anti-Doping Organizations (iNADO), ITA, and NADOs of China, Norway, Japan, New Zealand, France and Korea shared practices, experience and looked forward to future anti-doping work, with the topic of “NADO Compliance” “NADO Development and Capacity Building”, and “NADO Supporting Major Events”.

A signing ceremony between CHINADA and Vietnam National Anti-Doping Center (VADC) was held during the symposium on 24th September.

Held in hybrid format, the symposium welcomed 109 in-person and 433 online guests from international Anti-Doping organizations, NADOs, RADOs, GASC and its affiliated agencies, provincial sports bureaus and anti-doping agencies, standing committees of CHINADA and organising committees for upcoming China-hosted major events.