Time and location of the opening ceremony of the 2023 Asian Games

The opening ceremony of the 2023 Asian Games will be held on September 23 at the Main Stadium of Hangzhou Olympic Sports Center.

The Hangzhou Asian Games will be held from September 23 to October 8, 2023. After consensus reached by relevant parties and approved by the Executive Committee of the Olympic Council of Asia, the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou 2022 will be held from September 23 to October 8, 2023.

The opening and closing ceremonies of the Hangzhou Asian Games were held in the Hangzhou Olympic Sports Center Gymnasium. The competitions were held in the main competition area of ??Hangzhou and the five sub-divisions of Ningbo, Wenzhou, Jinhua, Shaoxing, and Deqing, Huzhou. The competition venues*** There are 56 venues in total, including 40 competition venues in Hangzhou.

The torch of the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou in 2022 is named "Xinhuo". Design ideas originate from the Liangzhu culture that demonstrates the five thousand years of Chinese civilization history. With its solemn and profound shapes, it is passed down from hand to hand through the torchbearers, showing the world the unique creativity of Chinese design and the hard-core power of Made in China. .

Architectural layout of Hangzhou Olympic Sports Center Stadium

Hangzhou Olympic Sports Center Stadium is located on the southwest side of Hangzhou Olympic Sports Center, covering an area of ??430 acres, with a building height of 59.4 meters and a total construction area of ??216,000 square meters; 6 floors above ground, with a total of 80,800 fixed seats, making it the second largest sports venue in China after the "Bird's Nest"; 2 floors underground, a garage with 3,000 parking spaces, and the introduction of commercial facilities similar to the "Sand Ship" Matching.

The first floor of the stadium is equipped with rooms for sports competitions. At the same time, in order for the stadium to "support the stadium and use it after the game", it has introduced the Hangzhou Intangible Cultural Heritage Exhibition Center, Hangzhou Mass Cultural Activity Center, and China Print Museum New building.

There is a circular platform on the second floor, which is connected to the second-floor platform of the "Little Lotus" Tennis Center of Hangzhou Olympic Sports Center; there are 86 boxes on the fifth floor. In view of the need for warm-up before the game, the stadium also has an athlete warm-up hall of more than 3,000 square meters, equipped with a 60-meter-long track.

The stadium "Big Lotus" is made of steel structure. The outer edge of the entire steel canopy is about 333 meters long from north to south and 285 meters long from east to west. The total amount of steel used in the steel structure has been optimized and improved after multiple rounds. Only 28,000 tons, which is 14,000 tons less than the 42,000 tons of the "Bird's Nest" in Beijing National Stadium.

This is because the 'Bird's Nest' is separated from the structure of the internal stands. The 'Bird's Nest' is built on top of the 'bowl', while the 'Big Lotus' is connected to the main structure of the stadium. .