绍兴市奥体中心

Shaoxing Olympic Sports Center stands at 899 Yangjiang West Road in the Yuecheng District of Shaoxing, at the north-western corner of the junction with Jiefang Avenue in the Jinghu New Area, facing the Jinghu National Urban Wetland Park across the river. It is the city's principal stage for major sport, exhibitions and concerts. Construction began in May 2010 and the complex opened in 2014 at a cost of about 1.3 billion yuan, covering 351 mu (roughly 23.4 hectares) with about 142,000 square metres of floor space. A river divides it into three separate buildings — the sports and exhibition hall, the swimming hall and the shooting and archery hall — linked by a road bridge and an elevated bridge. The sports and exhibition hall is designed to Class A sports-building standards, with a playing floor 72 metres long, 46 metres wide and 18 metres high, 9,880 seats including 1,700 movable ones, and 666 standard fixed exhibition booths; it hosts basketball, volleyball, badminton, table tennis, judo, wrestling, boxing, fencing, concerts and trade fairs. The swimming hall contains a training pool, a wave pool, a leisure pool and a hot-spring spa pool, with 3,000 seats in the competition area, while the shooting and archery hall also seats 3,000 and is served by an outdoor 150 by 35 metre archery range. The elliptical, streamlined shell earned the nickname 'the great river mussel' and the official Asian Games name 'the venue with the strongest water-town flavour'. The centre was Zhejiang's first public building to use a ground-source heat-pump system, with 2,150 boreholes 100 metres deep delivering roughly 40 percent energy savings. From 27 September to 3 October 2023 it hosted the women's basketball group games and quarter-finals of the Hangzhou Asian Games, and it has also staged the 2018 and 2019 FIVB Women's Club World Championships and numerous concerts. Metro Line 1 serves Olympic Sports Center station on both the north and south sides, and the venue lies about 38.8 kilometres from the Asian Games Village.