The best teams of the world will participate in the coming championship, among which the previous event's Women’s World Team Champion, the three highest-placed teams in the FIDE Olympiad prior to the event, the four Continental Champions, a team from the organizing federation, a team to be nominated by FIDE President. China will gather around 50 best chess players out of ten countries: China, Russia, Ukraine, USA, India, Poland, Armenia, Georgia, Egypt and Kazakhstan. Every team consists of five players and the team-winner will be determined in a round-robin event after 9 games. Time control is 90 minutes per 40 moves and thirty minutes until the end of the game plus 30 seconds increment per move. The WWCTC has been organized since 2007 and Chinese team won all the championships, except the last one in Astana 2013, where Ukrainian team was at the top. Hou Yifan and Zhao Xue will not participate in WWCTC this year and it’s going to be not easy for the team to prove their dominance without the strongest Chinese players.


The Russian team, the winner of the Chess Olympiad in Tromso and four-times silver medallist of previous Women’s World Team Championships, will also play this time without top seed Katerina Lagno. The leader of the team will be replaced by rising star Alexandra Goryachkina, so nevertheless the Russian team remains one of the favourites in the tournament.


Ukrainian team, the winner of the previous WWCTC, composed the team with the strongest Ukrainian players, including Women World Champion Maria Muzychuk. it will be the first official event attended by Maria since she won the title in Sochi.  Ukrainian team will undoubtedly fight for medals in that championship.


The organizers of the coming event are Chinese Chess Assosiation, FIDE World Chess Federation, with the support of Board and Card Administrative Center of General Administration of Sport of China and Chengdu Municipal Government.