增城体育馆

Zengcheng Gymnasium stands at 2 Jiaoyu Road, Zengjiang Subdistrict, Zengcheng District, Guangzhou. Completed in March 1987, it is one of the earlier district-level indoor arenas in the Guangzhou area. The site covers 18,000 square metres and the building 7,285 square metres, with 2,300 fixed seats in the indoor stand. The competition hall is a clear-span column-free space that can be laid out for basketball, badminton, table tennis, volleyball, gymnastics and dance sport; the same compound contains the Zengcheng Kangwei Stadium, whose outdoor stands hold about 12,000, and the Zengcheng swimming pool, all sharing one entrance and parking area, which makes this the densest cluster of public sports facilities in the Zengcheng urban area. During the 2010 Asian Games the gymnasium hosted dance sport, the first time the discipline appeared in the Asian Games, and the venue was upgraded for the occasion with new lighting, sound, flooring and athlete circulation. Since then it has served district competitions and public fitness. Today the hall opens for badminton, basketball and table tennis and hosts district leagues, youth training, corporate annual meetings and exhibitions; the floor area and seating suit events of roughly 800 to 2,000 people. Because the building dates from the 1980s, heavy rigging and large mechanical staging require an on-site structural check, and event power loads must be agreed with the venue's electricians. The gymnasium is about two kilometres from Zengcheng Plaza and roughly ten minutes by car from Zengcheng Plaza station on Metro Line 21; access is mainly by bus and car. The compound also has surface parking shared by the three venues, which simplifies load-in for exhibitions and corporate events.