Hangzhou, the capital of Zhejiang Province in the Southeast region of the country, is the only city bidding for what will be the 19th edition of the continental-wide Games, following an 18th event in Jakarta in 2018.

A delegation is here and will present to the OCA during the meeting tomorrow, with late summer and early autumn the likely time-frame proposed.

Hangzhou is also due to host the 2018 edition of the World Short-Course Swimming Championships.

This comes little more than a month after Beijing defeated Almaty in the race for the 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympics, meaning the two Games could be held on Chinese soil barely six months apart.

They would be the third edition of the Games to take place in China following Beijing 1990 and Guangzhou 2010, and the first Asian multi-sport event of any sort to take place there since the 2013 Asian Youth Games in Nanjing.

It will also be an unprecedented year for Asian sport, with the FIFA World Cup set to take place in Qatar in November and December.

The Asian Games were due to be pushed back 12 months onto an odd-cycle in order to avoid a clash with the World Cup and Winter Olympics.

But once Vietnam withdrew its hosting rights for the 2019 event last April, the Games was awarded to Jakarta with the proviso that it would be held in 2018 after all in order to avoid a clash with Indonesian Presidential Elections scheduled for 2019.

The same four year cycle will be continued until 2022, insidethegames has been told, although a proposed move to the different cycle could still be made thereafter.

These Games will be a central issue at tomorrow's General Assembly, where a new host for the 2017 Asian Youth Games will also be chosen following the decision to strip Sri Lanka of hosting rights earlier this year following a series of protests.

Indonesia is heavily expected to step in and take over.

No one will stand against OCA President Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah for the Presidential position, although several other officials are thought to be relinquishing their posts or are up for re-election.

The Assembly, taking place here on the Olympic Complex on which action will be held at the 2017 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games, will be officially opened tonight with a ceremony attended by Turkmenistan President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov.

IOC President Thomas Bach will not be present, having been ultimately unable to attend despite initially hoping to be here.

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