青海体育中心

Qinghai Sports Center at 88 Wusi West Road, Chengxi District, Xining, occupies the southern bank of Haihu Wetland Park in the Haihu New Area and is the largest and most complete sports complex in Qinghai. Built over about five years, the centre was completed on 25 November 2013 and opened on 1 January 2014 at a cost of about 1.7 billion yuan, though other sources cite 1.416 billion or 1.8 billion, covering 367 mu (roughly 245,000 square metres) with 188,000 square metres of floor area; some venue platforms quote 176,700 square metres of building and 244,600 square metres of site, so figures should be cited with their source. It comprises three halls and one stadium: a 40,000-seat main stadium, a 7,500-seat indoor arena, a 1,500-seat swimming hall and a later air-supported membrane hall. The arena has about 21,000 square metres on a circular plan, with competition and plant rooms on the ground floor, spectator services and a shared concourse above, and audio, lighting and LED control rooms on the fourth level. The swimming hall has an eight-lane standard pool, while the 2,160-square-metre membrane hall contains eight badminton courts, a five-a-side football pitch and a basketball court under a 14-metre clear height. The three round buildings use a diamond-star space grid and folded skin that glitters like crystal at night, forming a landmark of Xining's Haihu New Area. Together with the Duoba National Plateau Sports Training Base, the centre offers a fairly complete competition service system for provincial games, city games and national minority games, and day to day it opens football, basketball, badminton, table tennis, billiards, trampoline and swimming. Wusi West Road and Tonghai Road provide access, with bus services and a drive of about twenty minutes to central Xining.