Qingdao Olympic Sailing Center
Updated: 2010-03-16
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The Qingdao Olympic Sailing Center is located by Fushan Bay in the New District of eastern Qingdao，facing May Fourth Square across the sea. It covers about 45 hectares .The overall investment in creating the center was 3.28 billion yuan.
After the Beijing Olympic Games, the Qingdao Olympic Sailing Center became a popular site for tourism, recreation and holidays for visitors from China and abroad.
The center was awarded the designation "National Coastal Tourism and Leisure Demonstration Area" —the only one coastal tourism designation —by the National Tourism Administration.
The Olympic Sailing Museum at the Olympic Center opened Aug 9, 2008. It covers an area of more than 9,000 square meters. The large, thematic museum features objects and pictures of Olympic sailing games and culture.
The seascape theater is surrounded by water on three sides. The design concept shows a combination of "spray" and "sail”, fully demonstrating the sea and cultural characteristics of Qingdao. As the top theater, it daily staged the Blue Fancy Virtual Performance.
Some domestic and overseas sailing games are held each year at the Sailing Base of Qingdao. The well-known international sailing competition 2009/2010 Clipper Round the World Yacht Race fleet arrived here on Feb 20, continuing on to San Francisco, in the United States on March 2. The center will host the 2010 Qingdao International Sailing Week in August.
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