The event, which takes place at the China Administration of Sports for Persons with Disabilities complex – one of the training venues used at the 2008 Paralympic Games in the Chinese capital – will provide a valuable insight into what can be expected from China’s top athletes at the World Championships later this year.

China have topped the medals table at the last two World Championships in 2015 and 2017, as well as the track and field standings at the last four Paralympic Games.

The country’s Para athletes also dominated the podiums at the 2018 Asian Para Games in Indonesia.

Zhou Guohua claimed double sprint gold at London 2017, winning both the 100 metres and 200m T11 in a women’s class which includes 25-year-old 400m world champion Cuiqing Liu, as well as Britain’s Paralympic champion Libby Clegg.

Zhou and Liu will continue their rivalry at the event, while Dongdong Di, who won three golds in Indonesia, contests the men’s T11 sprints.

World 200m T11 champion Fan Zetan, takes on the longer sprint and will face Vietnam’s Asian Para Games bronze medallist Ngoc Hiep Nguyen in the men’s 400m T11.

Reigning world champions Yifei Yang, in the men’s 100m T36, and Shi Yiting, in the women’s 100m and 200m T36, are also set to be in action.

Paralympic champion Zhou Lihong is back in action two weeks after finishing sixth at the World Marathon Championships in London.

Zhou races in the 5,000m T54, while in the T53 class Hongzhuan Zhouwill be the one to watch over 800m and 400m, having won gold over both distances at Rio 2016, London 2017 and Indonesia 2018.

While Michael Brannigan of the United States won 800m and 1,500m T20 gold at London 2017, Portugal’s 22-year-old Cristiano Pereira is an increasingly powerful challenger to him.

Pereira won 5,000m gold ahead of Brannigan in London as well as silver in the 1,500m and went on to claim 1,500m T20 gold at the 2018 European Championships.

China won 19 of their 30 world titles in the field at London 2017 and much will be expected of their athletes again this year.

Among those competing in Beijing are double world champions Liwan Yang and Lijuan Zou.

Other home world champions will include Na Mi in the women’s discus F38, Juan Yao in the women’s discus F44, Enlong Wei in the shot put F46, Zhanbiao Hou in the discus F46, Xinhan Fu in the shot put F35 and Wang Yangzhang in the discus F34.

Ngoc Hung Cao was Vietnam’s only competitor at London 2017, finishing fifth in the discus F57.

The 29-year-old competes in the javelin, discus and shot put in Beijing.

Mongolia’s sole female competitor at London 2017 was Tsogtgerel Gendendarjaa, who competed in the shot put and discus F57.

She will compete in both events at the competition, due to conclude on Sunday (May 12).