2016 China Championship

The breakdown of prize money from this year is shown below:

The "rolling 147 prize" for a maximum break stands at £TBD.

The top 10 snooker players on the ranking list after the Shanghai Masters, along with the top 4 players on the one year prize money ranking list were invited to participate in the event.[2][5] The remaining two players (Marco Fu and Liang Wenbo) were selected by the Chinese Billiards and Snooker Association.[6] Mark Williams became eligible to participate after the withdrawal of world number 10 Ronnie O'Sullivan from the competition, as he was next in line to qualify through his official world ranking.[7]

Source:[8]

Seed	Player	Total Rankings[9]	1 Year Rankings[10]
01	Mark Selby	690,650	60,775
02	Stuart Bingham	516,534	34,775
03	Shaun Murphy	447,308	26,000
04	Judd Trump	409,166	19,000
05	John Higgins	408,725	22,750
06	Ding Junhui	376,925	91,500
07	Neil Robertson	359,582	58,500
08	Mark Allen	336,592	9,725
09	Ricky Walden	312,208	9,400
0w/d	Ronnie O'Sullivan	302,333	8,000
010	Mark Williams	243,008	22,250
011	Ali Carter	226,200	105,150
012	Anthony McGill	197,375	73,525
013	Joe Perry	295,133	41,050
014	Michael Holt	149,683	38,150
	Marco Fu	Qualified via CBSA Wildcard
	Liang Wenbo	Qualified via CBSA Wildcard

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	Last 16 Best of 11 frames					Quarter-finals Best of 11 frames					Semi-finals Best of 17 frames					Final Best of 19 frames
	1	Mark Selby	6
	12	Anthony McGill	2
						1	Mark Selby	5
						8	Mark Allen	6
	8	Mark Allen	6
	9	Ricky Walden	4
											8	Mark Allen	3
											5	John Higgins	9
	5	John Higgins	6
	10	Mark Williams	4
						5	John Higgins	6
						11	Ali Carter	2
	4	Judd Trump	4
	11	Ali Carter	6
																5	John Higgins	10
																2	Stuart Bingham	7
	3	Shaun Murphy	6
	13	Joe Perry	4
						3	Shaun Murphy	6
							Marco Fu	2
	6	Ding Junhui	3
		Marco Fu	6
											3	Shaun Murphy	8
											2	Stuart Bingham	9
	7	Neil Robertson	5
	14	Michael Holt	6
						14	Michael Holt	5
						2	Stuart Bingham	6
	2	Stuart Bingham	6
		Liang Wenbo	2

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• 144, 129, 121, 101 – Shaun Murphy
• 141, 122, 118, 114, 112, 104, 102 – Stuart Bingham
• 140, 131, 114, 106, 100 – Mark Allen
• 134, 131, 123, 101, 100 – John Higgins
• 127 – Mark Selby