萧山瓜沥文化体育中心

The Xiaoshan Guali Culture and Sports Center stands at 10778 Jianshe 4th Road in Guali Town, Xiaoshan District, Hangzhou, at the heart of the town's new district, with the Qicai Future Community to the west, the Guali town government to the north and the town's commercial centre to the east. Construction began in January 2013 and the centre was completed in August 2017 at a cost of about 250 million yuan. It occupies 58.5 mu, roughly 3.9 hectares, and has 33,045 square metres of floor area across a main competition hall and a warm-up hall, seating 4,251 spectators during the Asian Games; other sources quote 4,600, the capacity of the main hall alone. The main hall is oval and rises three storeys. It was designed to CBA standards and can accommodate gymnastics, basketball, handball, volleyball, badminton, table tennis, boxing, judo, wrestling, taekwondo, weightlifting, fencing and wushu. The annexe is a square, five-storey training hall with shops set into its sunken plaza. The design borrows the lace motifs for which Guali is known as a hometown of Chinese lace, and the outline has been compared to both the Bird's Nest and the Water Cube. During the Asian Games the centre hosted wushu and kabaddi, and during the Asian Para Games it hosted taekwondo. It has since built on that legacy by promoting itself as a national base for kabaddi. Bookings are made through the Asian Games venue service on the Zhejiang government app or the AI Dong Hangzhou mini-programme. For the Asian Games the town spent about 85 million yuan on ten packages of work, including civil alterations and finishes, sports lighting and intelligent building systems.