Chaoyang Park
The Chaoyang Park ( Chinese 朝阳 公园 , Pinyin Cháoyáng Gōngyuán , also known as 北京 朝阳 公园 , Běijīng Cháoyáng Gōngyuán ) is a park on the site of the former Prince's Palace in the Chaoyang district in the northeast of the Chinese capital Beijing . Construction of the park began in 1984. It is approximately 2.8 kilometers long and 1.5 kilometers wide. With a total area of 288.7 hectares, 68.2 hectares are covered by water. 87% percent of the area are green spaces.
The Beijing Pop Festival has been held in Chaoyang Park every September since 2005 . In 2006, construction of the Great Beijing Wheel began in the park. In 2010 the construction work was stopped.
Beach volleyball competitions were held here at the 2008 Summer Olympics . For this purpose, a temporary stadium was built, which offered space for 12,200 spectators on an area of 14,150 square meters. During the construction work, ruins of the Tai Shang Lao Jun temple from the Ming dynasty were discovered in Chaoyang Park . The facility consists of a center court, two warm-up areas and six training areas. For the playing fields, which cover a total area of 20,000 square meters, 17,000 tons of fine sand were supplied from Dongfang in the province of Hainan . The FIVB -Supervisor Blair Harrison praised the unique location of the stadium in a park. From August 13th to 19th, 2007 the FIVB Beach Volleyball Women's Challenger took place in the stadium. After the games, a large swimming pool and a music fountain with a diameter of 25 meters were to be built instead of the stadium. Today, however, the stadium is rusting to itself.
Web links
- official website (chinese)
- Photographic guide (English)
- Chaoyang Park on beijing2000.cn (English)
- Overview of the competition venues with Google Map
Individual evidence
- ^ The rusted remains of the Olympic Games on zeit.de , April 12, 2012
Competition venues for the 2008 Summer Olympics
Coordinates: 39 ° 56 ′ 44 ″ N , 116 ° 28 ′ 46 ″ E