上海宝山体育中心

Baoshan Sports Centre occupies 700 Yongqing Road in Baoshan District, in the district's central urban area near Youyi Road. Completed at the end of 2011 after two years of construction and an investment of about RMB 500 million by the district government, it is one of northern Shanghai's most complete public sports complexes and is managed by Shanghai Baoshan Sports Centre Management Co. The site covers 70,499 square metres with 81,562 square metres of gross floor area, comprising an indoor basketball arena, a public fitness building, a library and an outdoor culture and sports plaza, with 532 parking spaces, 96 above ground and 436 below. The basketball arena was built to NBA-07 standards and has a sunken bowl-shaped seating tier with 7,073 places: 5,079 fixed seats, 396 bar stools, 480 VIP seats, 1,004 movable seats and 500 VIP box seats. It has hosted CBA and WCBA games and the Super Penguin celebrity basketball event. The fitness building contains a 25 by 50 metre heated swimming pool and a children's pool on the third floor, four tennis courts and 20 table-tennis tables on the fourth, plus badminton courts, a gym and commercial space. The 12,000-square-metre plaza has a 400-metre running track, a 1,000-metre fitness trail, eight basketball courts, two five-a-side football pitches and an outdoor stage with a 16 by 9 metre LED screen. The centre stages about 90 sports and cultural events a year and receives around 5.4 million visits annually; it has also been used for recordings of television shows. Bus connections from Youyi Road station on Line 3 and Gongfu Xincun station on Line 1 serve the site.