英东体育场

Henry Fok Stadium stands at 110 Kangle Road, Shiqiao Subdistrict, Panyu District, Guangzhou. Funded by the Hong Kong businessman Henry Fok, it broke ground in November 1986, was completed in March 1988 at a cost of about RMB 5.22 million, and remains one of the defining public buildings of the period when Panyu was still a county; it forms part of what was the first county-level sports centre in the country. The stadium covers 38,500 square metres with 23,000 square metres of built area. Its plan is elliptical, the exterior is painted off-white, and the stepped stands are fitted with colour-banded plastic seats for 14,818 spectators in full seating configuration, with function rooms, VIP rooms and press facilities on the lower and first floors beneath the stands. The pitch measures 105 by 68 metres and is surrounded by an eight-lane, 400-metre red synthetic track, so the venue can stage both football and athletics. Its strongest association is with women's football: it hosted the Women's World Championship in 1988 and 1991, the China-USA women's international on 11 February 2001, football matches of the 9th National Games the same year, and matches of the 2010 Asian Games, for which the district spent nearly RMB 40 million on renovation and imported Nanyin No. 5 turf. The stadium is now managed by the Panyu District Sports Venue Development Centre under the district's culture, radio, television, tourism and sports bureau, and opens year-round for football and athletics training and public fitness; the stands and pitch are also used for corporate sports days and filming, with dates arranged through the management centre.