Beijing Chaoyang Park

The Chaoyang Park (Chinese朝阳 公园, Chaoyang Pinyin Gōngyuán, also known as北京 朝阳 公园, Beijing Chaoyang Gōngyuán ) is a park on the site of the former Prince Palace in Chaoyang District in the northeast of Beijing, China. The construction of the park began in 1984. It is about 2.8 kilometers long and 1.5 kilometers wide. With a total area of 288.7 hectares, 68.2 hectares are covered with water. 87 % percent of the land are green spaces.

Since 2005, every year takes place the Beijing Pop Festival in Chaoyang Park in September. Began in 2006 in the park with the construction of the Great Beijing Wheel. 2010, the work was stopped.

At the 2008 Summer Olympics took place here the competitions held in beach volleyball. For this purpose, a temporary stadium was built, which could seat 12,200 spectators on an area of ​​14,150 square meters. During construction ruins of Tai Shang Lao Jun- temple were discovered from the Ming Dynasty in Chaoyang Park. The system consists of a center court, two places to warm up and six training courses. For the playing fields, which cover a total area of ​​20,000 square meters, 17,000 tonnes of fine sand from Dongfang in Hainan Province were delivered. The FIVB supervisor Blair Harrison praised the unique location of the stadium in a park. From 13 to 19 August 2007, the FIVB Beach Volleyball Women's Challenger was held in the stadium. After the Games, the stadium should place a large swimming pool and a music fountain with 25 meters of diameters arise. Today, however, rusts the stadium in front of him.