广州飞碟训练中心

The Guangzhou Clay Target Shooting Training Centre lies at Rongshuxia village, Paitan town, Zengcheng District, about 90 kilometres from central Guangzhou and close to the Baishuizhai scenic area. One of five new municipal venues built for the 2010 Asian Games, it covers 117,800 square metres divided into clay target ranges, a main building and an event support zone, with 1,000 fixed seats and 2,000 temporary ones. The project cost RMB 160 million, began at the end of 2008 and was completed in April 2010, making it the second purpose-built venue in China able to stage international clay target competitions after the Beijing Shooting Range. The Asian Games shotgun events were held here in November 2010, with twelve events and twelve gold medals. The centre then became Guangzhou's shooting and archery base and the resident training base of both the national shooting team and the Guangdong provincial team, hosting provincial championships year after year and earning the nickname 'cradle of champions'. For the 15th National Games in 2025 it underwent nearly eight months of renovation that kept the original building form while upgrading 9,656.15 square metres indoors and 51,659 square metres outdoors, with equipment benchmarked against the Paris Olympics, and it staged the Games' clay target shooting events. Access is by road via Highway 105 and local routes towards Paitan, or by coach from Tianhe with a change at Conghua or Zengcheng; the surrounding land is mainly forest and farmland, with temporary parking and shuttle services on event days. The centre has trap and skeet layouts whose traps and scoring equipment were renewed in the National Games upgrade, so it can host international invitationals and winter training for national squads.