广药体育馆

The Guangdong Pharmaceutical University gymnasium, known during the 2010 Asian Games as the Guangyao Gymnasium, stands in the teaching zone of the university's Higher Education Mega Centre campus at 280 Waihuan East Road, Panyu District, Guangzhou. The sports field lies to the east, the Central Ring Road to the west, and East Second and East Third Roads close the site to north and south. The main hall covers 9,786 square metres. Fixed seating provides 4,986 places, and the hall can be set up for volleyball, basketball, badminton and other indoor sports. Volleyball matches of the 2010 Asian Games were played here between 13 and 27 November. The building is multi-purpose in plan, with the main hall linked to training and support rooms so that competition, warm-up and spectator areas can be zoned separately, and during the Games the floor and support rooms were fitted out for volleyball. After the Games the university's sports department took over management for physical education classes, squad training, matriculation and graduation ceremonies and large lectures, opening the hall to staff, students and neighbouring residents when it is free. The campus is served by Metro Line 4 and by Higher Education Mega Centre buses 1, 2, 3 and 381, and the gymnasium is one of the principal indoor halls in the ten-university cluster. Xiaoguwei island holds ten university campuses, and the hall sits between the teaching zone and the dormitories, which keeps it in use from morning to evening. The Asian Games left the university with a hall that now anchors its sports curriculum, and the building is also let out for examinations and public lectures.