湖州奥体中心

Huzhou Olympic Sports Center occupies No. 518 Jintian Road in Renhuangshan subdistrict, Wuxing district, Huzhou, on the eastern edge of the South Taihu Wetland Olympic Park, and is one of the city's new landmarks. The 31.3-hectare project has 114,200 sqm of floor area and cost about 1.5 billion yuan; it opened in June 2017 with a stadium, a swimming hall and a multi-purpose hall. The buildings are shaped like a lily in bloom, petals radiating from the centre, clad in titanium panels. The stadium seats 40,000, covers 57,480 sqm and rises 55.7 m, with a natural-turf football pitch inside a 400 m track. In 2017 it received IAAF Class One certification, the first stadium in Zhejiang to do so, and it has won a China Steel Structure Gold Award and the Jinyu Award for metal envelope engineering. The opening ceremony of the 16th Zhejiang Provincial Games was held there in 2018, and from 2022 to 2023 Zhejiang FC used the ground for its Chinese Super League and AFC Champions League home matches. The swimming hall has 1,514 seats and a competition pool, training pool and leisure pool; the multi-purpose hall handles basketball, badminton and table tennis. After the Games the complex opened to residents and now hosts concerts, exhibitions and youth training, forming a sports and leisure district with the wetland park. The swimming hall hosted the swimming competition of the 2018 provincial games, and the complex is managed by Huzhou Sports Industry Development alongside the city's other main venues. The whole complex stands inside the 74.3-hectare South Taihu Olympic Wetland Park, which adds training and leisure space around the venues.