温州龙舟运动中心

Wenzhou Dragon Boat Sports Center sits at No. 999 Shanghui Road in Louqiao subdistrict, Ouhai district, Wenzhou, on Dragon Boat Lake in the southern unit of the Ouhai central district, next to the Ouhai Olympic Sports Center. Work began in October 2019, the venue was completed and entered trial operation in March 2021, and the cost came to about 1.557 billion yuan. It covers 532 mu with 23,713 sqm of floor area, roughly 10,000 sqm above ground, and comprises the racing water, an athletes' hall, the Qianlong Pavilion, a viewing terrace, a finish tower and landscaped banks, with a dragon-boat culture museum in the basement. The course is a newly excavated artificial channel 1,200 m long, 130 m wide and 3.5 m deep, with six racing lanes and one reserve lane, five sluice gates upstream and downstream, and water drawn from the Zeya reservoir. There are no fixed seats: four standing areas along both banks hold about 10,000 spectators, preserving the local habit of watching races from the shore. From 4 to 6 October 2023 the venue staged the Asian Games dragon boat events, producing six gold medals, and it was kept permanently afterwards as the country's most specialised dragon boat racing base. Since then it has hosted the international dragon boat open, the National Games dragon boat regatta, the national canoe sprint championships and the Wenzhou village dragon boat tournament, drawing more than 2,000 people a day for exercise and making the lake area the city's watersports hub. The venue shares the Ouhai sporting district with the Olympic Sports Center, and its lake is also used for dragon boat festivals and public paddling sessions through the year.