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The Tonglu Equestrian Centre stands at 1 Linchang Road in Yaolin Town, Tonglu County, Hangzhou, on the Yaolin forestry farm site, with the Fenshui River to the south and the Tianmu mountains behind it, about 100 kilometres from the Asian Games village. It was the main equestrian venue of the Games and one of the last new venues to start construction. The project covers more than 730 mu, roughly 49 hectares, plus 150 mu of rented land for the cross-country course, and has about 54,000 square metres of floor area, although the organising committee quoted some 52,000 square metres. It was built to Olympic-level main arena standards. Facilities include a main arena of about 100 by 120 metres, other accounts give 80 by 100 metres, a 5,000 square metre indoor training hall, 60 by 80 metre outdoor training and warm-up grounds, 240 high-standard stables, a cross-country course of nearly 4,000 to 5,000 metres, plus a grooms' village, equine hospital, feed store and farriery. Seating during the Games was 3,104. Tonglu thereby gained the first disease-free equestrian zone usable in mainland China, capable of hosting dressage, show jumping and eventing; six gold medals were decided there during the Games. Since then the site has moved towards equestrian tourism, adding an Akhal-Teke horse ranch, a horse culture museum and a rider hotel, and it stages events such as the Yangtze River Delta equestrian league. The main venue was completed and pre-accepted on 28 September 2021, and a three-day eventing invitation tournament in June 2022 served as the test event. The site is also used for equestrian tourism and riding lessons outside the competition calendar.