Post-Asian Games Venues:
A New Lease on Life
Whether it is the beauty of the city of Hangzhou or the humanistic care of Hangzhou, they have left a deep and beautiful impression on the world during the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou 2022. With six months to go until the end of the Asian Games, how are Hangzhou's 56 venues doing after stunning the world?
The reuse of venues after large-scale events has always been a difficult problem for countries all over the world. Rio's Maracana stadium, just six months after the end of the Games, has become a dilapidated stadium, unable to afford maintenance. The beach volleyball hall of the Beijing Olympic Games is completely closed, and the internal field is reborn with weeds and no one wants to visit.
(the Maracana Stadium during the 2014 World Cup in Brazil)
(current situation of the Maracana Stadium)
Hangzhou, as the largest number of competition venues for the Asian Games, has created a precedent for the opening of comprehensive sports venues to national fitness and mass sports before the competition. Not only has the stadium been opened to the public before the game, but also the opening and use of the stadium is better after the game.
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In the stadium and gymnasium of Hangzhou Olympic Sports Center, large-scale performances are seamlessly connected, and star concerts are lively and singing. At the same time, track and field training fields, outdoor basketball courts, volleyball courts, tennis courts and other venues are also opened to facilitate public fitness. More than 10 concerts and other events have been held since the end of the Asian Games, and the number is expected to reach nearly 30 in 2024.
(the actual concert scene in the venue)
As the badminton venue of the Asian Games, Binjiang Stadium has undertaken 12 public activities since the end of the Asian Games, and the professional outdoor badminton courts and basketball courts outside the stadium are open to the public for free.
Qiantang Roller Skating Center, as the leading professional roller skating venue in China, although it cannot be fully open to the public due to safety problems, it will still undertake various events and hold various experience activities from time to time, so that the public can also have the opportunity to experience various facilities of the venue. In mid-April 2024, the Asian Games Roller Skating Exhibition will be held, open to the public free of charge, and welcome the public to visit the venue.
(the interior view of Qiantang Roller Skating Hall)
(the public experience in the hall)
The way to enter these venues is also very convenient, open the "ZheLiBan"app, search "Asian Games venues online", time, venue, price, at a glance, the public can choose venues and make reservations on demand, very convenient. At present, the city has 384 venues access to the "Asian Games venues Online", covering 41 sports, the number of users reached 1.79 million, the average daily visit of 35,000 times, the total number of fitness 19.3 million people. With the increasing number of sports venues, Hangzhou citizens really enjoyed the dividends brought by the Asian Games.
According to the data released by the Beijing East Big Data Research Institute, the sports industry has shown a rapid development trend driven by the promotion of national health awareness and national policy support, and has made new achievements in meeting the diversified sports needs of the public, enhancing sports consumption capacity, and innovating sports consumption scenarios. Data show that China has become one of the world's largest sports consumer markets, with more than 500 million people regularly participating in physical exercise, and the sports consumer market is expected to grow to 2.8 trillion yuan in 2025. Therefore, the bustling phenomenon of Hangzhou Asian Games venues in the post-Asian Games era is not only the result of government policies, but also in line with the needs of the big era.
(Source: State General Administration of Sport)