First of all, the history of building competition between local and overseas is totally different. In 1904, the first large-scale bodybuilding competition held at Madison Square in New York. In 1944, the first bodybuilding competition named Shanghai men's bodybuilding competition held in Shanghai YMCA auditorium. It is the first bodybuilding competition held in China.
It shows that the history of overseas bodybuilding competition is more longer than local’s.
Overseas bodybuilding competition divided as two types, professional and amateur level. But local bodybuilding competition did not divide people as professional or amateur.
According to overseas bodybuilding has decided as two types, there are some different competitions for different kind of competitors. For example, the amateur competitors can take part in IFBB (the International Federation of Bodybuilding & Fitness), when the competitors get the IFBB pro-card, then this competitor can participate in more professional bodybuilding competitions, such as Arnold Classic (The Arnold Sports Festival), the Olympia bodybuilding contest.
For local people, the bodybuilding competition has no a specific name. Because there are some different associations organize different competitions every year. Such as HKCBC (Hong Kong China Bodybuilding and Fitness Association), this association will organize a bodybuilding competition for bodybuilders every year. But most of time, this kind of association just give a sign up way for the bodybuilders who want to join the bodybuilding competitions in mainland china or overseas.
The qualification of participating in competition between local and overseas bodybuilding competition is also different.
For the overseas bodybuilding competition, only the people come from the member states (and which must be paid the annual fee) and also received the invitation card, they can take part in the