拉萨市群众文化体育中心

Lhasa Public Culture and Sports Center stands in Liuwu New Area, Doilungdeqen District, bounded by Chagu Avenue, Aoti Street, the East Ring Road and Liuwu Xincun Road. It was a flagship aid project from Beijing and the foundation-laying scheme for the 60th anniversary of the peaceful liberation of Tibet. Ground was broken on 31 August 2011, construction began in July 2012 and the complex was completed and accepted in October 2014. It covers 387 mu, about 25.8 hectares, with roughly 69,000 square metres of floor space and an investment of about 735 million yuan. The layout is a stadium, a gymnasium and the Tibet Yak Museum around a music plaza: the stadium seats 30,000, the gymnasium 6,000, and the museum occupies more than 8,000 square metres. Residents call the building the Little Bird's Nest; in November 2015 it won the Luban Prize, China's top construction award, and it is described as the world's highest-altitude modern sports complex. The Yak Museum opened on 18 May 2014 and is a national second-grade museum and a 4A scenic site. The center opens 365 days a year from 8 am to midnight, with indoor basketball, football, badminton, table tennis and swimming free or cheap, outdoor courts, fitness trails, a children's area and a circle-dance plaza always free, and 570 free parking spaces. In 2025 it hosted 6,054 sessions and received 460,000 visits. Karen Mok's 2019 world tour concert here was billed as the highest-altitude arena concert. Swimming, badminton and table tennis programmes run alongside the museum, and the campus stays open until midnight every day.