山西体育中心

Shanxi Sports Center stands at No. 1 Jiankang South Street in Jinyuan District, Taiyuan, with Jinyang Lake to the west and the Fen River to the east, anchoring the city's southern Jinyang Lake district. It is the largest and most complete public sports complex Shanxi has built, and the province's benchmark fourth-generation venue. The 1,238-mu (about 825,333 sqm) site contains 273,812 sqm of floor area arranged as one stadium, six halls and two supporting buildings: the Red Lantern stadium, a basketball hall, a swimming and diving hall, a velodrome, a ball-sports training hall, a multi-purpose training hall and a shooting and archery hall, plus an athletes' residence and the Shanxi International Sports Exchange Center. The main stadium alone covers 90,066 sqm with 60,000 seats, a World Athletics-standard 400 m track and a FIFA-standard pitch, and can stage national multi-sport games and international single-sport championships. Its design borrows the shape of a drum, the structure of a lantern and the ornament of paper-cut art; the red palette and translucent polycarbonate panels mimic paper-cut negative space, so the building reads as a lit lantern at night. The complex is a national comprehensive training base and a national fitness demonstration base, hosting seven national training centres for cycling, gymnastics, athletics, swimming, wushu, karate and taekwondo. Between 2023 and 2025 it staged 36 concerts and events drawing 1.72 million spectators, alongside the opening ceremony of the second National Youth Games and international football and wrestling fixtures. Access is via Binhe West Road and Jiankang South Street, next to Jinyang Lake Park and the Fen River greenway.