广东省人民体育场

Guangdong Provincial People's Stadium stands at 18 Jiaochang West Road, Yuexiu District, Guangzhou, and is known to older residents as Dongjiaochang, the eastern parade ground. It is the longest continuously used sports ground in China. The site was used for military examinations and drill from 702 AD, when a martial examination hall was established in the Tang dynasty, and through the Ming and Qing it served as the Dongjiaochang parade ground; on 10 January 1906 it hosted the Guangdong Provincial Games, the earliest modern athletics meeting held in China. In 1930 the provincial government recovered the land and built the Guangdong Provincial Stadium, completed in October 1932 and then among the largest and best-equipped grounds in the country. It was renamed the Guangdong Provincial People's Stadium in July 1950, received an 8,000-seat steel grandstand in 1953, and after a 1980 reconstruction had 23 tiers of reinforced concrete terracing, more than 27,000 seats and four floodlight towers. For the first Women's World Cup in 1991, funded by Henry Fok, roofs were added to the east and west stands and a synthetic track laid, giving a site of 39,645 square metres and 27,096 seats. Since 1981 it has been the regular Guangzhou venue for the Guangdong-Hong Kong Cup, and it hosted matches of the 1991 Women's World Cup and the 2010 Asian Games football tournament. Between 2023 and 2025 it was rebuilt for the 15th National Games with capacity reset at about 15,000; it staged the women's under-16 football competition in 2025 and reopened its running track to the public on 18 June 2025. The ground is owned by the Guangdong Provincial Sports Bureau, and Exit A of Martyrs' Park station on Metro Line 1 is about 110 metres away.