2016 China Open – Men's doubles

Vasek Pospisil and Jack Sock were the defending champions, but Pospisil chose to play in Tokyo instead. Sock played alongside Bernard Tomic but lost in the final to Pablo Carreño Busta and Rafael Nadal, who won 6−7(6−8), 6−2, [10−8].

Seeds
• # 🇺🇸 Bob Bryan / 🇺🇸 Mike Bryan (semifinals)

• # 🇵🇱 Łukasz Kubot / 🇧🇷 Marcelo Melo (semifinals)

• # 🇮🇳 Rohan Bopanna / 🇨🇦 Daniel Nestor (first round)

• # Treat Huey / 🇧🇾 Max Mirnyi (first round)

Seeds
• # 🇮🇱 Jonathan Erlich / 🇲🇽 Santiago González (first round)

• # 🇷🇺 Andrey Kuznetsov / 🇧🇷 André Sá (first round)

Qualifiers

 * 1) 🇮🇹 Paolo Lorenzi / 🇦🇷 Guido Pella