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Yinghai Soccer Theme Park
Covering an area of about 300 mu (20 hectares), the Yinghai Soccer Theme Park is an urban sports park integrating ecology, leisure, entertainment and sports fitness. In the park, there are soccer fields, tennis courts, badminton courts and basketball courts, as well as cycling trails, leisure squares, sports centers and other facilities, making it the largest soccer theme park in Daxing District.
The park not only boasts many sculptures related to soccer and children as well as fitness equipment, red running tracks and green lawns, but also well-organized spectator stands and huge electronic displays. Therefore, it would be quite pleasant to have a sports event here. The white decorative letters "National Health, Healthy Life" are bold in the park, calling on everyone to exercise and enjoy beautiful life moments with a healthy body.
Address: 370 meters west of the intersection of Sanhaizi East Road and Santai Road, Daxing District, Beijing (North side of Santai Road)
National Stadium (Bird's Nest)
The National Stadium, also known as the Bird's Nest, serves as the main venue for the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics, as well as for the opening and closing ceremonies of the Beijing 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. It is world's first venue to host opening and closing ceremonies for both the Summer and Winter Olympic Games. Located in the central area of the Beijing Olympic Park, the Bird's Nest can accommodate 91,000 spectators. As an iconic building representing China's image, the Bird's Nest carries far-reaching social significance and has become a platform for international exchanges and an important window to showcase China's image.
In the post-Olympic era, the Bird's Nest has successfully provided services for international and domestic major events such as the Asian Culture Carnival and World Athletics Championships. By exploring comprehensive market-oriented operation, creating new tourism highlights, introducing top-level events and performances, establishing public welfare events for youth, cultivating self-owned brand projects, and extending the industrial chain of venue operation, the Bird's Nest has developed a sustainable development path of mega Olympic venues with Chinese characteristics that integrates large-scale sports events, popular sports, high-end cultural activities, tourism services and commercial development. It has become the most dynamic post-Olympic venue in the world.
Address: No.1, National Stadium South Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing
Beijing Equuleus International Riding Club
Situated in the central villa area near the Chaobai River in Chaoyang District, the Beijing Equuleus International Riding Club with convenient transportation and beautiful scenery, has won the title of "Top Ten Destinations for Sports Tourism in Beijing".
As an equestrian lifestyle experience center gathering closeness to nature, fashion, leisure, and cultural activities, it has attracted many stars and internet celebrities to experience and take pictures. Some business activities of international brands are also held here. Every September, the International Equestrian Culture Week (Beijing) is held here as the "Beijing Sports Tourism Quality Project". You are welcome to the club with your friends and family!
Address: No.91, Shunbai Road, Cuigezhuang Township, Chaoyang District, Beijing
Beitou Olympic Park 1314
Located in the Beijing International Sports Industrial Park on the south side of the National Olympic Sports Center, the Beitou Olympic Park 1314 is adjacent to the Bird's Nest, Water Cube and China National Convention Center, and next to the Beitucheng Subway Station. It is a trendy tourist spot with the dual-Olympic legacy, a new landmark of sports culture and fashion, and a sports-featured park integrating sports, culture, consumption, catering and entertainment.
The Beitou Olympic Park 1314, as a witness to the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics and Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games, relies on the "dual-Olympic elements" and "Beijing's profound central axis culture" to integrate fashion and sports. Composed of four main functional areas, it can meet tourists' different consumption needs through various activities such as sports consumption and immersive experience. From post-Games reuse to new business model of "sports +", the Olympic spirit is running through. With the sports IP as the core, the park leads the new trends of sports ecology, creating another new landmark of sports and cultural consumption and a center for fashion consumption in Beijing.
In the Beitou Olympic Park 1314, tourists can visit stunning sports venues to learn more motor skills and feel the joy of sports.
Address: Courtyard 1, Aoyuan West Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing
Beijing Winter Olympics Park
The Beijing Winter Olympics Park, along the Yongding River, is located in the west of Shijingshan District, and next to the Beijing Organizing Committee for the 2022 Olympic Winter Games and the Big Air Shougang. By integrating the existing parks such as the Marathon Camp and Lianshihu Park, and relying on the natural landscape, history, culture, industrial heritage, and other resources, the park carries out ecological restoration and environmental quality improvement, forming an urban waterfront open space.
Featuring various landscapes such as the snow-filled forest, the park perfectly combines the surrounding Shougang factory, Big Air Shougang, The New Shougang Bridge and other urban landscapes to create a green and vibrant "urban forest".
The construction of the Beijing Winter Olympics Park plays an important role in spreading the culture of the Winter Olympics and inheriting the Xishan Mountain-Yongding River culture, and exemplifies the re-protection and reuse of industrial relics.
Address: Along Yongding River in the west of Shijingshan District, Beijing
Beijing De'an Motor Sports
Covering an area of 700 sqm, the indoor children's karting track in the De'an Motor Sports offers protective gear including helmets, neck braces, and rib protectors free of charge, to bring a new speed experience for children, as well as simple teaching services for the beginners.
As an exchange center for racing entertainment and culture, the about-two-kilometer-long outdoor track is a standard short rally track and serves as a training ground for racers. All training teachers are national registered racers with a wealth of knowledge and professionalism.
In addition to meeting the needs of car fans and citizens to experience the charm of racing, the Beijing De'an Motor Sports also provides training for racers and in safe driving all year round and serves as a venue for car events, team building, new car launches, and commercial promotion activities. It is a multi-functional velodrome integrating motorsports and commercial activities.
Address: Building 6, Courtyard 7, Wushun South Road, Daxing District, Beijing
Banquan Sports Park
Located in the Caijia River basin of Yanqing District, the Banquan Sports Park features forest greenways, pastoral landscapes, and other tourism resources. Centering on leisure sports such as cycling, air sports, extreme sports and outdoor sports, it presents a green and ecological sports resort.
Equipped with complete service facilities, the park boasts a prominent advantage as a comprehensive sports park. It has a three-level "slow-way system": integrated roads, bike lanes, and walking trails, connecting inlets, ponds, and other special landscapes. It can meet tourists' needs for various forms of excursions from different angles.
With a distinctive landscape and nearly 100 percent of forestry coverage, the park is one of the Internet-famous attractions for tourism, leisure, and fitness in Yanqing District.
Address: 800 meters northeast of International Grape Exhibition Garden, Kanghe Road, Yanqing District, Beijing
Red Pinecone—TSC Sports Center
Located in Daxing District, Beijing, the Red Pinecone—TSC Sports Center is China's first sports complex transformed by a factory.
The sports center features professional venues for indoor soccer, basketball, and volleyball, as well as more than ten entertaining programs such as trampoline, rock climbing, and indoor skiing, allowing citizens to enjoy sports while having fun!
Covering an area of 4,000 sqm, the popular large trampoline park regularly holds themed activities and professional skill performances for citizens to watch at close range and interact with performers. Adopting the "central ventilation system", the center serves as a comfortable and safe venue of culture, sports, leisure, and entertainment for citizens.
Address: No.32, Yongda Road, Daxing Biomedicine Industrial Base, Daxing District, Beijing
Source: Beijing Tourism