Keats School`s location is very convenient. There is a sports center close to Keats School. There are many students who learn Chinese in Yunnan here to go there for exercise. If you study in China and want to travel in Kunming, you can go to Tuodong Gymnasium for swimming, play tennis, play basketball or watch football games.
Yunnan Tuodong Gymnasium was founded in 1958. At present, it is the largest comprehensive gymnasium in Yunnan. If you learn Chinese in Yunnan in Kunming, It is better for you to know this Tuodong is an important place for holding popular recreation and sports activities in Kunming City. The first game for the national football team of China heading for 2014 World Cup will be hold in Tuodong Gymnasium. And the Yunnan Dong Gymnasium is busy with the preparation of the game.
Many students who learn Chinese in Yunnan in Keats School think Keats School`s location is really good. So does Yunnan Tuodong Gymnasium. It is located on the east of Kunming City which is situated between the East Dong Feng Road and Tuodong Road. It has clear superiority in its location. And it has convenient communications. The land area of Yunnan Tuodong Gymnasium is 73000 square meters which is the largest comprehensive gymnasium in Yunnan and an important place for holding recreation and sports activities for the mass in Kun Ming City.
The gymnasium belongs to Tuodong sports centre which was began to build in 1958. The center seated 4500. The attached facilities were gyms, basketball ground and volleyball court. Keats School`s students who learn Chinese in Yunnan to go there play basketball and tennis often. In order to adapt the development of the modern economy, the gymnasium will be reconstructed in large scale.
If you study in China, perhaps you found out there are a lot of old gym in China. And Yunnan Tuodong Gymnasium was raise in 1957. 41000 audiences can watch the activities together in Yunnan Tuodong Gymnasium. The lawn football ground in the gymnasium is constructed as international standard. So does the plastic track and field. The gymnasium is equipped with large colorful image screen, three color screen, electronic timing and score boards, advanced system of broadcast and acoustic, and the advanced light system. The facilities equipped with and the functions of these advanced facilities have been the first class in China. It can hold large sports activities and programs of entertainment. With the reconstruction, the attached football ground outside in the east has been restored with standard lawn and track. The outside ground in the west is about 7000 square meters which has been the square for the mass to do excises.
Tuodong natatorium has equipped with standard large pool and one small pond. Many students of Keats who learn Chinese in Yunnan go there 3 times per week. They think the place is good for swimming. Because it use to the place for the professional athletes to do excises and compete. With the large scale reconstruction in August, 2000, the service facility of Tuodong natatorium has been improved to specified limits. And it has opened to the whole society.
The facilities of badminton, table tennis, basketball, volleyball, and football and track field were opened to the whole society everyday in order to reflect its public welfare nature. So if there is an activity for students who learn Chinese in Yunnan, it is a good choice for holding group activity. The long-term and short-term sports training programs have been developed for the teenagers. At present, the sports training programs such as swimming, football and basketball have been worked. What’s more, more training programs and colorful sports summer camp have been organizing and developing. Nowadays, more than 200,000 people go to the Tuodong Gymnasium to do excise every year.
Tuodong Gymnasium undertakes all kinds of large sports games and cultural activities actively. Recently years, the large international games such as the Asian football qualifier of the Olympic Game in 1996, the Chinese and America football tournament, and AYACC had been held in Tuodong Gymnasium successfully. The international world horticultural exposition opening ceremony in 1999, large program of entertainment, and opening ceremony of the fifth national minority sports games had been held in Tuodong Gymnasium. Moreover, large cultural activities: the piano concert of Chad, the music concerts of famous musicians in China such as Zhang Xueyou, Zhang Huimei and Zhang Guorong had been held in Tuodong Gymnasium successfully.
The Tuodong Gymnasium develops in different ways: take full advantages of infrastructures, advocating the relative activities of management, providing and perfecting the service, developing from different aspects. At present, Tuodong Tuodong Gymnasium develops in operation and service as a whole. Gymnasium has been a multifunctional comprehensive place gradually for fitness, entertainment, eating and drinking, meeting, standard room service, parking, and Auto Detail Service.
Yunnan Tuodong Gymnasium has developed oriented by the goal. In order to strengthen the vigor of it and adapt the development of the society, Yunnan Tuodong Gymnasium is busy with researching and making the measures to perfect the development. They have tried their best to make a contribution to the society in the development of the economy.