北京工人体育场

Beijing Workers' Stadium occupies Workers' Stadium North Road in Chaoyang District, between the East Second and Third Ring Roads and next to Sanlitun, the old and new embassy quarters and the Workers' Gymnasium. Completed in 1959 as one of the capital's Ten Great Buildings for the tenth anniversary of the People's Republic, it long served as a multi-purpose arena and the home of Beijing Guoan. Between 2020 and 2023 it was rebuilt under a 'traditional look, modern venue' brief and reopened as an international-standard football-specific stadium, keeping the rhythm of its original facade and colonnade. The main building has 380,000 sqm of gross floor area, about 101,000 sqm above ground and 278,000 sqm below, with a four-tier bowl of 68,000 seats and a 130,000 sqm public sports park and lake alongside. The running track was removed so that seats sit close to the pitch; the roof integrates drainage, snow melting, shading and photovoltaic generation, while the pitch uses anchored hybrid grass with undersoil heating to stay playable through winter. Underground space carries retail, food and beverage, parking and plant, turning the venue into a mixed-use city complex for matches, concerts and daily leisure. Metro Lines 3 and 17 interchange at Workers' Stadium station, with Line 2 at Dongsi Shitiao and numerous bus routes also within reach. The rebuilt stadium keeps the original elliptical outline and the scale of the old bowl, while the ground-floor edge opens onto the surrounding park so that the memory of the old Gongti remains legible.