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He Long Sports Center Stadium stands at No. 188, Section 2 of Furong Middle Road in Tianxin District, Changsha, inside the block bounded by Furong Road, Laodong Road, Baisha Road and Chengnan Road, little more than a hundred metres from Exit 3 of Metro Line 1's Houjiatang station. It is the first large comprehensive sports ground in China named after a national leader, Marshal He Long. Its predecessor, the Changsha Labour People's Stadium, opened in 1951; it was expanded and renamed He Long Stadium on 10 October 1987, rebuilt for the fifth National City Games in 2000, and reopened in 2003 under the present name. After the rebuild the centre covers 100 mu, about 67,000 sqm, with 130,900 sqm of main building area, 98 VIP boxes and 42,746 seats. Two seating tiers ring an oval bowl under a cantilevered steel truss roof, around a natural-turf pitch and 400 m track, with a secondary pitch, training ground and commercial space alongside. The stadium is known for its street-level vitality, blending matches, concerts and everyday public use, and locals treat it as part of the texture of the city. It has staged the opening ceremony of the fifth National City Games, the China-Korea qualifier for the 2018 World Cup and dozens of other major fixtures, and it is a favoured concert site. In April 2023 the centre was listed among the first national model venues for public sports facility operation. Furong Middle Road and Laodong Road meet at the site, with Metro Line 1 and dense bus routes serving it.