天河体育馆

Tianhe Gymnasium occupies the south-western corner of Guangzhou Tianhe Sports Centre at 299 Tianhe Road, Tianhe District. It opened on 30 August 1987 together with the sports centre as one of the three principal venues of the 6th National Games, and it remains a landmark on the city's new central axis. The building covers 25,600 square metres with 17,159 square metres of main hall floor area; its plan is hexagonal and the roof spans 126 metres, achieved with a steel space frame that leaves the competition hall column-free. Seating is 7,600 after renovation, although earlier sources quote 9,000. The floor can be converted for basketball, volleyball, badminton, table tennis, tennis and handball, and the hall is equipped with a demountable full-colour LED screen, electronic scoreboards and professional stage lighting and sound, which extends its use to large performances, conferences and exhibitions. The venue was comprehensively refurbished before the 9th National Games in 2001, when reception rooms, dressing rooms, a warm-up hall and a doping control room were added and the lighting and audio systems upgraded; during the 2010 Asian Games it hosted badminton and some basketball matches. In 2016 it became the home arena of the CBA's Long Lions and since 1 May 2019 the club has operated the building directly, one of the few CBA venues run by its tenant team. The parent Tianhe Sports Centre covers 588,000 square metres, was built for the 6th National Games in 1987, was listed in 2018 among China's 20th-century architectural heritage, and was comprehensively upgraded for the 15th National Games in 2024 and 2025. Its position inside the sports centre means concourse space, warming-up areas and neighbouring pitches can be borrowed for larger events.