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Xi'an Qujiang Sports Centre stands at No. 555 Gongtian Fourth Road in Yanta district, Xi'an, inside the Qujiang Esports Industrial Park south of Chunlin Fourth Road and between Gongtian Fourth and Fifth roads. It is the first comprehensive smart arena in northwest China built around an esports theme and holds Class-A gymnasium status. Construction started in 2020 and the venue opened in 2022 on a 50.35-mu site made up of a main hall and a secondary hall, with 77,600 sqm of floor area, 44,500 sqm above ground and 33,150 sqm below, and a height of 33.3 m. The main hall has 10,415 theatre-style upholstered seats over four levels: the competition floor at ground level, a mid-tier stand on the second floor, VIP boxes on the third and an upper stand on the fourth, plus a nursing room and companion-accessible seats. The building takes the hibiscus flower as its form under the concept ripples rising, hibiscus blooming, with white double-curved panels and metal trim, roughly 9,000 tonnes of steel and a 100 per cent prefabrication rate, and its roof and facade can be lit as a single surface at night. Inside are a 225 sqm centre-hung high-definition screen, two double ring screens, two end screens, ten line-array speaker clusters and four floor speaker sets, supported by more than 6,000 IoT devices for smart operations. The floor is set to Olympic gymnastics dimensions and converts quickly for basketball, handball, tennis, fencing, wushu and wrestling, as well as concerts, exhibitions and esports; the 2024 World Snooker Xi'an Grand Prix, the men's volleyball Olympic qualifier, the League of Legends 12th anniversary event and the ninth Silk Road International Film Festival have all been held here. The arena was the first in Shaanxi to be rated Class-A by the provincial venues association, and its park won a Luban Prize for construction.