As one of the six official events of the International Wushu Federation (IWUF), the World Junior Wushu Championships is held every two years. It stands as the world’s largest, highest-level and most influential wushu event for young athletes. First launched in 2006, it has been successfully held nine times to date, building an international platform for young wushu enthusiasts worldwide to showcase their skills, exchange techniques and learn from each other. This edition marks the first time the Championships has been held in mainland China, and at the important historical milestone of its 10th edition, it serves as a crucial prelude to wushu’s debut at the 2026 Youth Olympic Games.

The core visual identity elements of this Championships are designed with a profound integration of wushu spirit, Tianjin’s cultural characteristics and youthful vitality. The emblem creatively combines a wushu practitioner, taiji symbols and a five-pointed star, embodying the martial spirit and regional features; the medal draws inspiration from Tianjin’s Nezha culture, featuring a hollow-out design of the Qiankun Circle that blends mythological imagery with the event’s logo; the mascot "Wuxiaoxia" (Young Wushu Hero) is based on the image of Nezha, portraying a vibrant young wushu athlete. The official slogan "Tianjin -Where Wushu Dreams Ignite" concisely interprets the original aspiration of wushu practitioners and the mission of the host city, symbolizing that Tianjin will provide a stage for young wushu athletes around the world to shine and realize their dreams.

The 10th World Junior Wushu Championships will be held at the Tianjin Olympic Center  Stadium from March 26 to 30, 2026. The Championships features two major disciplines: taolu and sanda divided into three age groups – children, junior and youth. Taolu includes multiple events such as changquan, nanquan and taijiquan , as well as weapon events, with a total of 66 events for men and women. Sanda competitions are classified by weight categories, covering 17 events, and the Championships will award a total of 83 gold medals. A groundbreaking change for this edition is the introduction of the preliminary and final competition system in the wushu taolu events of the World Junior Wushu Championships for the first time – for events with more than 50 athletes, the preliminaies will be held in groups, and the top 12 athletes will be selected to advance to the finals. The preliminary entry for the Championships has now opened, with the final entry kicking off on December 23, 2025. Young wushu athletes from around the world are actively preparing for the competition and signing up enthusiastically, looking forward to showcasing their youthful vitality at the Tianjin.

As the host city, Tianjin is one of the birthplaces of modern sports and the Olympic Movement in China, where traditional and modern sports have integrated and thrived, setting many precedents. Nestled at the confluence of the Haihe River and the Grand Canal, the city’s unique geographical location as the "lower reaches of nine rivers" endows it with distinct river and coastal characteristics, and forges the Tianjin people’s spirit of striving for excellence and valuing martial arts. Wushu, as the backbone of cultural inheritance, has long been embedded in the city’s fabric and flows with the waves of the Haihe River. Local wushu styles such as Wujiquan (Limitless Fist), known for its fluidity and harmony, Lanshoumen (Blocking Hand School), famed for its power and speed, and the ethnic Hui heavy broadsword, celebrated for its grandeur and boldness, have taken root here. The Mizongquan (Lost Track Fist) of Mr. Huo Yuanjia is renowned at home and abroad for the spirit of "strengthening the body and loving the country". The China Martial Arts Association, founded a century ago, blazed a trail for the popularization of wushu, passing on the cultural gene of valuing martial arts and advocating morality from generation to generation. Today, Tianjin is deeply committed to the inheritance of wushu culture, introducing wushu courses to numerous schools and communities through the "Wushu Entering Six Venues" initiative, forming a cluster effect and providing more opportunities for young people to understand and learn wushu. Wushu has become one of Tianjin’s most distinctive cultural symbols: from community fitness grounds to professional training venues, from campus classrooms to international competition stages, hundreds of thousands of wushu enthusiasts take martial arts as a medium to make friends, breathing new life into traditional wushu in the new era and making Tianjin a veritable highland for wushu inheritance and a dynamic city of sports.