China made history on Sunday by securing a women's rugby sevens qualification for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. The success came with the team's 33-0 victory over China's Hong Kong in Asia Women's Rugby Sevens Tournament in Guangzhou of south China's Guangdong Province.

There are eight teams – China, Sri Lanka, South Korea, Kazakhstan, Thailand, Singapore, the Philippines and China's Hong Kong – attending the tournament to compete for a spot in Tokyo next year.

This was already the host's second game between the two teams. In their second game in Group A, China beat China's Hong Kong 42-7. Many had expected that the host would meet Kazakhstan in the final but the traditional Asian rugby heavyweight suffered a surprising loss to China's Hong Kong in the semifinals.

Thanks to this victory, rugby sevens became the China's third participating team ball discipline after women's volleyball and women's ground hockey.

Compared with traditional rugby, rugby sevens is faster and easier to score, thus more exciting to watch. It was introduced to the Olympics for the first time in 2016 in Rio de Janeiro.

China invested a lot to get this Olympic ticket. The team were runner-up in the Asia Women's Rugby Sevens Series in September after they were defeated by Kazakhstan. In order to be better prepared for the Olympic qualifiers, China held a week-long communication with Russia and went to New Zealand for a nine-day training program in mid-October.