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The Hongshan Sports Centre Gymnasium stands at 90 Xinmin West Street in the Shuimogou District of Urumqi, hard against the east gate of Hongshan Park, and is the indoor arena of the municipal Hongshan Sports Centre, better known simply as the Hongshan Gymnasium. A 2019 reorganisation of the municipal sports bureau merged the former Hongshan Sports Centre with the Hongshan swimming centre into one body that now runs four facilities: the gymnasium, Hongshan Stadium, the Hongshan natatorium and an outdoor pool. The gymnasium covers a site of 15,558.52 sqm and rises 24.8 m over one basement and four upper floors, seating 3,500 people. With the retractable seats stowed the floor measures 34 m by 45 m; with them open it measures 33 m by 21 m, which allows basketball, volleyball, handball, table tennis, badminton, wrestling and taekwondo competitions as well as small indoor meets, stage shows, conferences and lectures. Beyond the competition floor and its sports fit-out, the building has four VIP and athlete rest rooms at front and rear. The ground floor is currently leased in its entirety to Xinjiang Honghui Hezhan Commercial Services, which runs sports, fitness and cultural businesses there, while the rest of the building continues to serve training, competition and public exercise. Sitting in the old centre of the city, the arena forms a sports cluster with Hongshan Stadium and the Hongshan natatorium, surrounded by the park and the residential and commercial streets off Xinmin West Street, and most spectators arrive on foot or by bus. It is one of four venues in a centre that also runs Hongshan Stadium with 9,600 seats, the natatorium and an outdoor pool, an arrangement formalised when the municipal sports bureau merged the two older bodies in 2019.