杭州体育场

Hangzhou Stadium stands at 169 Tiyuchang Road in Gongshu District, at the heart of the Wulin commercial district, and is the birthplace of modern sport in the city as well as its last surviving large outdoor athletics ground in the centre. The site was the Dayingpan military parade ground from the Qing dynasty into the republic; in 1928, when Zhejiang won the right to stage the 4th National Games, the sports educator Shu Hong led its conversion into a public sports field. It was completed in February 1930 as Dayingpan Stadium and on 1 April 1930 hosted the 4th National Games, the first national multi-sport event held in Hangzhou. Renamed the Zhejiang Provincial Stadium afterwards, it gave its name to Tiyuchang Road, formally titled in 1931 and still so called. When the Huanglong Sports Centre opened in 2002, management passed from the province to the city and the ground took its present name, remaining free and open to the public. The 90,000 sqm site holds a standard 400 m synthetic track around a natural-turf football pitch, with open stepped stands for more than 10,000 people and floodlighting; residents use it daily for running, fitness and ball games, and schools and companies have long held their sports days here. Because it has reached the end of its design life, the stadium closed on the evening of 14 December 2025 for renovation on a minimum-intervention, lowest-cost basis: the main structure is retained and strengthened while seating, track and pitch, lighting, sound, security and scoreboards are all renewed. It is due to reopen at the end of 2027, and some seventy shops of the adjacent China Silk City have already moved out.