Hangzhou Asian Games | International Model Towards a New Future -- Visit the Asian Games Venues in Hangzhou West Lake District

Xinhua News Agency, Hangzhou, September 7 (Reporter Zhang Xuan, Duan Jingjing) In more than 10 days, the main torch of the Hangzhou Asian Games will be lit at the Hangzhou Olympic Sports Center Stadium, and the atmosphere of the Asian Games in Hangzhou's streets will become stronger. Recently, the reporter visited the Asian Games venues in the West Lake District of Hangzhou to feel the atmosphere of the competition in advance.

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Located behind the Qixia Ridge near the West Lake and next to Huanglong Cave, the Huanglong Sports Center, built in 1997, has always been one of the landmarks of Hangzhou urban area. This orange colored cable-stayed tower has hosted many heavy sports events, bearing the memory of many people.

Asian Games venues in Huanglong Sports Center (photo taken on August 21, 2023, UAV). Photographed by Huang Zongzhi, reporter of Xinhua News Agency

After the new reconstruction, the Huanglong Sports Center is even more beautiful - the central stadium is equipped with an elevating bucket screen, the swimming and diving hall adopts the internationally advanced assembled swimming pool design, and a 1000m long "air runway" has been built on the stadium

When you step into the Huanglong Sports Center Stadium, you can see the seats for 10000 people in the main color of the main image of the Hangzhou Asian Games, "Rainbow and Purple", which is very spectacular. Along the colorful stands, two ring screens with the words "Heart to Heart, @ Future" are surrounded inside the stadium like two blue ribbons.

Song Haiqiang, a staff member of Huanglong Sports Center, said that this kind of ring screen is the first one in open stadiums and gymnasiums nationwide. The ring screen can play text and animation, which can greatly improve the experience of spectators. In addition, the lawn and runway under the athletes' feet have also been updated, with the introduction of anchored lawn, which is more solid and durable than the traditional natural lawn.

It is reported that the Huanglong Sports Center Stadium, Gymnasium and Swimming and Diving Gymnasium will respectively undertake the tasks of football, gymnastics (competitive gymnastics, rhythmic gymnastics and trampoline) and water polo in three categories and five events in Hangzhou Asian Games, as well as track and field competitions in the Asian Paralympic Games.

West Lake International Golf Course. Photos of the official website of the Organizing Committee of the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou

The reporter came to the West Lake International Golf Course located between the green mountains. Take the cart to enter the stadium. The sprinkler facilities are watering the grass. The reporter's first stop is the green area.

The first goal of golf is to hit the ball on the green, and then push the ball into the hole through the putt. There is no fixed size and shape of the green area, but there is one thing in common - the grass in this area is shorter and smoother, which helps to push the ball. Therefore, the grass in this area is more "delicate" than that in other areas.

Since the renovation, Qian Shixue, the irrigation supervisor of the West Lake International Golf Course Field Affairs Department, and his colleagues have been on the course, driving the cart around the field every day to observe the state of grass, which is their daily routine.

In order to make the green grass meet the Hangzhou Asian Games in late September with the best quality, the golf course maintains the lawn by installing electric fans, spraying water to cool down, and improving the cutting height to cope with high temperature weather.

Hangzhou Huanglong Sports Center in the night (taken on August 15, 2022, UAV photo). Photographed by Xu Yu, a reporter from Xinhua News Agency

It is reported that at the end of July this year, the "full element, full process and full load" simulation drill, which lasted two years and was carried out according to the standard of the Asian Games, was successfully completed in all venues. The venue operation team improved the problems found in the simulation drill one by one, and the competition organization and other functions were continuously optimized, which was recognized by all parties.

"The West Lake District has venues for important Asian Games events, such as the Huanglong Sports Center and the West Lake International Golf Course, as well as important portals for Hangzhou's city image, such as the West Lake and the Xixi Wetland." Gao Weixing, Executive Deputy District Chief of the West Lake District of Hangzhou, said that the West Lake District will play the "long tail effect" of the Asian Games, focus on high-level opening, realize a new leap in international urban construction, and let the masses see Feel the real happiness in the tangible changes.

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