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| Dates | 24–30 March 2008 |
| Venue | Beijing University Students Gymnasium |
| City | Beijing |
| Country | China |
| Organisation(s) | WPBSA |
| Format | Ranking event |
| Total prize fund | £250,000 |
| Winner's share | £48,000 |
| Highest break | 147 |
| Final | |
| Champion | Stephen Maguire |
| Runner-up | Shaun Murphy |
| Score | 10–9 |
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The 2008 Honghe Industrial China Open professional ranking snooker tournament took place between 24 and 30 March 2008 at the Beijing University Students Gymnasium. This was the penultimate ranking event of the season, preceding the 2008 World Snooker Championship.
The defending champion was Graeme Dott, but he was eliminated in the first round, losing to Barry Pinches.
Shaun Murphy and Dave Harold set two new records in the eight <dfn style="border-bottom:1px dotted #0645AD; font-style:inherit;">frame</dfn> of their first round match. Murphy eventually won it after 93 minutes and 12 seconds, beating the record of the longest televised frame between Mark Selby and Marco Fu at the 2007 UK Championship and the longest frame in professional competition between Cliff Thorburn and Stephen O’Connor at the 1994 Welsh Open qualifiers, which took 77 minutes 31 seconds and 92 minutes 52 seconds respectively.[1]
Stephen Maguire made the first maximum break in an Asian ranking tournament in the second frame of his semi-final encounter against Ryan Day.[2]
Maguire won hist fourth ranking title, defeating Murphy 10–9 in a high quality final.
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Winner: £48,000 |
Stage 1 high break: £500 Stage 1 max: £1000 Total: £250,000 |
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| WC1 | Barry Pinches | 5–1 | Zhang Anda |
| WC2 | Fergal O'Brien | 5–2 | Cao Xinlong |
| WC3 | Marcus Campbell | 5–4 | Ah Bulajiang |
| WC4 | Mike Dunn | 5–1 | Yang Qingtian |
| WC5 | Dave Harold | 5–4 | Jin Long |
| WC6 | Mark Allen | 5–2 | Li Hang |
| WC7 | Marco Fu | 5–4 | Li Yuan |
| WC8 | Ricky Walden | 5–3 | Yu Delu |
| Final: Best of 19 frames Beijing University Student's Gymnasium, Beijing, China, 30 March 2008.[4][5] |
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| Stephen Maguire Scotland |
10–9 | Shaun Murphy England |
| Afternoon: 60–41, 32–63 (54), 0–72 (72), 74–0 (74), 120–0 (106), 68–24, 114–0 (102), 0–136 (136) Evening: 24–75 (75), 36–61, 8–92 (81), 39–74, 137–0 (137), 80–15, 80–0 (80), 97–17 (89), 0–107 (86), 46–61, 64–40 |
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| 137 | Highest break | 136 |
| 3 | Century breaks | 1 |
| 3 | 50+ breaks | 5 |
Qualifying for the tournament took place in Pontin's Prestatyn, Wales between 22 and 25 January 2008.[4]
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