华工体育场

Huagong Stadium refers to the West Sports Ground of the South China University of Technology Wushan campus at 381 Wushan Road, Tianhe District, Guangzhou, next to the campus lake and in the same cluster as the five-storey West Gymnasium completed in 2006. The ground was first built in 2006 and upgraded in August 2017; it is a Class II athletics facility certified by the Chinese Athletics Association, able to host teaching, training and competition in track and field and football. It consists of a natural-turf football pitch inside a standard running track with basic floodlighting, and evening use requires the lights to be switched on. As a university facility it serves teaching and varsity training first, then opens to students, staff and booked outside teams in off-peak hours, generally from 08:00 to 22:00 with adjustments during holidays and examination periods. The ground floor of the neighbouring West Gymnasium is left open as six standard basketball courts, while the third to fifth floors house table tennis, gym, aerobics, martial arts, badminton and tennis rooms, and the building also contains the School of Physical Education offices; the cluster can therefore host university sports meets, faculty leagues, youth camps and corporate team-building. One caution on the data: an earlier version of this library recorded 5,634 seats for this entry, but that figure actually belongs to the gymnasium on the university's Higher Education Mega Centre campus, which has 5,632 fixed seats and was the judo and wrestling venue of the 2010 Asian Games, not to the Wushan West Ground. The seat count and floor area are therefore recorded here as not published rather than estimated. Outside organisations must obtain approval from the university venue office and register vehicles and visitors for campus entry.