This characteristic building group is Tianhe Sports Center, of which Guangzhounese is proud. The scale of this building group is magnificent and the momentum is great. It is a great landscape in GuangZhou and a bright spot on the core line of New Tianhe Town. Here was once an obsolete airfield and Tianhe Sports Center was built for the 9th National Game of china.

    This center was started in July, 1984 and completed in August in 1984. It includes a stadium having a capacity of sixty thousands spectators and a gymnasium having a capacity of eight thousands spectators. The subordinate stadiums and gymnasiums include a track field with runway, two football training courts, a swimming hall and a body-building room and so on.

    The architectural image, environmental art and equipment design of Tianhe Sports Center all bring forth new ideas and accord with the standard for international competition. The architectural design is original in conception and it is provided with two characteristics.

    Firstly, the building adopts open structure to assure its ventilation for Guangzhou being in subtropical zone; secondly, crossbeams, large columns and wide spans are adopted to make it grand and magnificent. By reason of these characteristics, the center once has the honor to win the second prize of National Technical Progress and nationally issued Luban Prize.

    The outlying greening environment, lively sculpture group and elegant fountain art attract the tourists at home and abroad. The former president of IOC Samaranch once praised in the same year, "Both the equipment and the environment of Tianhe Sports Center are top-ranking". Besides that all kinds of large matches can be held here, the center has even more become a hot spot for the citizens to make physical culture and sports after All the People Improving the Health plan and the center specially established All the People Improving the Health activity.

    Not only the outdoor basketball court, badminton court and table tennis court can be freely opened, but also other indoor sport equipment can be opened to the citizens. Every morning, lots of men and women and the old and the young gather here to make morning exercise. Some exercise Tai Ji Quan (shadowboxing), some dance fan dance and some play badminton. How busy the center is.