Chengdu Worldcon
The 81st Worldcon and first in China, Chengdu WorldCon will be held August 16–20, 2023, at Chengdu Century City New International Convention & Exhibition Center in Chengdu, Sichuan, China. It will be the second Worldcon in Asia, after Nippon 2007.
The GoHs are writers Liu Cixin, Robert J. Sawyer and Sergey Lukianenko. The latter caused some controversy in February/March 2022 when his long-term anti-Ukraine sentiments culminated in enthusiastic support of the Russian military invasion.
Chair: TBD ("the Members' Congress will select the convention chair", bid filing). Vice Chairs: Yao Haijin, Liang Xiaolan, Yang Feng, Chen Shi. Senior advisor: Nicholas Whyte, Colette H. Fozard. Diversity manager: Xia Tong, Pablo Vazquez. Site selection manager: Tammy Coxen[1] / Yao Chi. Promotion manager: Dave McCarty. (For more of the concom structure as claimed in Dec '21, see photo of flyer.)
The Chengdu 2023 Worldcon bid won over Winnipeg in '23 in the 2023 Site Selection at Discon III in Washington, DC in December 2021, with a landslide of 2006 votes to 807 (of which pre-con postal ratio was 1950 to 332). Vice Chair Chen Shi told the business meeting:
It’s been four years since Chengdu started and this has given hope to countless Chinese fans. For Chengdu fans, this is a once in a decade opportunity. This is a special moment for us all. It is a new adventure for all of us. It will be a different kind of Worldcon, but it will still be a Worldcon. That you will still recognize as part of these traditions that started in 1939, when the world was a very different place. I want to thank the efforts of the team in Winnipeg. It has been a long journey, and you gave some good competition, and I will say that we have learned some things from you as well! Such as how to run a good fan table, how to run a good community, give a good presentation, and so on. I hope that many of you will be ready and willing to join our teams. I hope that we can welcome all of you to Chengdu. In fact, we welcome everyone here to Chengdu. We prefer it if you come in person, but for those who can’t, a stream of virtual programming will be part of the accommodation.
Chengdu will host the 2025 Worldcon Site Selection and the 2023 Hugo Awards.
- WorldconinChina.com – official website (English version; little content as of March 2022)
- Bid filing (PDF, some content only as images; contains Constitution of the Chengdu Science Fiction Society which is listed as official organiser/applicant)
- Articles tagged "Chengdu in 2023" at File770
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