福州海峡奥林匹克体育中心

Fuzhou Strait Olympic Sports Center, usually shortened to Strait Olympic Center, stands at No. 333 Dongling Road in Cangshan District, on the eastern part of Nantai Island south of the Min River. It was the main venue of the first National Youth Games and remains Fuzhou's principal complex for international single-sport events and large concerts. The site covers about 1,100 mu (roughly 733,000 sqm) with some 360,000 sqm of floor area and a cost of about 3.6 billion yuan, built to a two-star green building standard as one stadium and three halls: a 119,772 sqm stadium seating about 60,000, a 42,000 sqm arena with 12,980 seats, a 33,000 sqm swimming hall with 3,978 seats and a 30,000 sqm tennis hall with 3,152 seats. The stadium roof layers several curved steel shells that read as sails on the sea, echoing the maritime silk road imagery of the Min River estuary, over a natural-turf pitch and 400 m track; the open concourse beneath lets spectators circulate between the stands and the riverfront plazas. Linked concourses and decks let the three halls handle event-day crowds and then reopen to residents for swimming, badminton and tennis. As a special-grade, extra-large sports building, its steel structure and roof engineering were assessed as internationally advanced and recognised with national construction awards. Dongling Road and the South Second Ring Road frame the site, bus and metro connections serve the entrances, and the expressway network links it quickly to Fuzhou South railway station and the Changle airport direction. A broad landscaped esplanade on the river side doubles as public open space on non-event days.