Qinhuangdao Olympic Sports Center Stadium () served as one of the

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venues during the

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. The multiuse stadium, which is used mostly for soccer matches, lies inside the Qinhuangdao Olympic Sports Center on the Hebei Avenue in

Qinhuangdao Qinhuangdao (; ) is a port city on the coast of China in northern Hebei. It is administratively a prefecture-level city, about east of Beijing, on the Bohai Sea, the innermost gulf of the Yellow Sea. Its population during the 2020 national ...

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. Its construction was started in May 2002 and completed on July 30, 2004. The sports center covers , the Olympic-standard stadium has a

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of 33,572, 0.2% of which are reserved for the disabled persons.

References

Beijing2008.cn profileQinhuangdao Sports website
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