On 1 December 2016, the
UCI, Wanda Sports (part of
Wanda Group) and the regional government of Guangxi signed an agreement that would see a newly created stage race, the Tour of Guangxi, added to the
UCI WorldTour from October 2017. Additionally, this agreement outlined that a women's Tour of Guangxi would be added to the calendar from 2017 and would apply for inclusion on the
UCI Women's WorldTour from 2018. The UCI also announced that the UCI Cycling Gala would be held in the Chinese city of
Guilin, having previously been hosted in
Dubai,
United Arab Emirates. Stage 1 took place in and around
Beihai. Subsequent stages passed through
Qinzhou,
Nanning and
Liuzhou, traversing Guangxi from south to north. Guilin hosted Stage 6, the final stage of the tour.
Tim Wellens finished first in the General Classification, beating runner-up
Bauke Mollema by six seconds. Wellens had also won Stage 4, with
Dylan Groenewegen winning Stage 5. Sprinter
Fernando Gaviria won the three flat stages at the start of the tour, as well as the final stage. The Tour of Guangxi was first part of the Women's WorldTour in
2018. The race was due to occur in 2020, 2021 and 2022, but was cancelled as a result of the
COVID-19 pandemic. In the
2018,
2019 and
2023 editions of the tour, the race took a similar route as in 2017, travelling through Guangxi from Beihai on the south coast to Guilin in the north, with near-identical intermediate stage hosts. The
2024 route will instead start in
Fangchenggang on the south coast, then travel north through the western part of Guangxi (through
Chongzuo,
Jingxi,
Bama,
Jinchengjiang and
Yizhou) before turning south to conclude in the region's capital, and regular stage host, Nanning. Similarly, the first four editions of the women's race were hosted in Guilin; the 2024 edition will instead be hosted in Nanning. == Winners ==