Tianhe Sports Center is adjacent to the Guangzhou East Railway Station, opposite the 83-story CITIC Plaza. The center sits north to south, southeast and northwest with four gates, the main gate in the south, covering a total area of 580,000 square meters, the main building consists of full-featured, advanced equipment, sophisticated structure of the stadium, gymnasium and swimming and diving hall. It is the largest sports venue in Guangzhou at present. It was built in 1987, the year it successfully hosted the Sixth National Games, leaving a deep impression on the nation.
The stadium adopts a saddle-type design, with a floor area of 65,600 square meters, the bottom of the grandstand is designed as a 6-story building, with 2 reception halls and 3 VIP halls, 140 work rooms, and with 400 square meters of integrated training hall, the track and field soccer field can accommodate 60,000 spectators, with a 10 × 8 m color big screen display and other game equipment and facilities; the stadium is hexagonal, with a floor area of 22,000 square meters, the museum competition hall 92.4 meters long, 78.4 wide, 30 meters high, 8628 audience seats; swimming pool construction area of 21,700 square meters, the circular corridor can be used as an exhibition hall, with a large competition hall, swimming pool, diving pool each one, more than 3,200 audience seats.
In addition to the three main venues, the Tianhe Sports Center is also attached to the official games available for ball games, gymnastics, skills, weightlifting practice and other venues, as well as a news center, children's amusement park and other facilities. In particular, the newly opened Great World Bowling Center in 1996, with advanced facilities, complete equipment, and the most advanced American AMF system for the lanes, is the first world-class large-scale bowling entertainment venues in the country. After the Sixth Olympic Games, the sports center continues to develop, one after another, the construction of baseball stadiums, tennis courts, bowling alleys, gateball courts, indoor go-karting arena, open-air swimming pools, fitness Leyuan series of competitions and group activities such as venues and project venues.
In 1995, under the call of the National Sports Commission to promote national fitness activities, the Sports Center took the lead in the implementation of the full opening, the construction of the country's first fitness paths, and the construction of additional woodland dance, open-air badminton courts, table tennis activities, children's activities, fitness district, basketball clubs and other facilities for groups, as well as beautiful landscaped environments, the center of the green grass, full of subtropical gardens. The center is full of green grass and subtropical garden style, which is matched with the whole grand site and becomes a garden-style sports park. Become not only can hold a variety of sports competitions, extensive mass sports activities, but also can hold various types of large-scale expositions, set fitness, entertainment, leisure and exhibition in one of the large multi-functional integrated activities.
Tianhe Sports Center has become a symbol of Guangzhou's urban construction achievements and patriotic education base, is listed as the "window" of Guangzhou City, Guangzhou City, the new city axis of a bright "bright spot".
The Tianhe Sports Center has become the center point of the Tianhe business circle, near the Guangzhou Book Buying Center, Tianhe City, CITIC Plaza, Jianhe Mansion, Hongcheng Plaza, Chengjian Mansion, Tianhe Mansion, Mayor Mansion, Metropolis Plaza, Victoria Plaza and many other buildings,
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