After two seasons of tournament-based leagues, the Chinese Super League has finally ushered in the opportunity to resume home and away. Recently, the Chinese Football Association officially issued the "Letter of the Chinese Football Association on the Resumption of Home and Away Games in the Professional League in the 2022 Season" to the clubs of the three-tier league. The notice said: "The Chinese Football Association intends to start restoring the regular home and away format of the 2022 Season of the Chinese Super League, the Chinese League A and the China Second League in April on the basis of the normalization of epidemic prevention and control. "This is undoubtedly good news for the clubs of the Chinese Super League that have been struggling for a long time. For the veteran giant Beijing Guoan, it may be a double happiness.
In the final round of the 2019 Chinese Super League, Guoan made a stunning home comeback to defeat Shandong Luneng 3-2. After the game, Guoan fans put up a banner of thanks and bid farewell to the workers' body. At the end of that season, the renovation and rehabilitation of the workers' body was officially put on the agenda. In mid-2021, the main concrete structure of the workers' stadium was fully capped and entered the steel structure construction phase on November 18. The project progressed very smoothly, even during the Winter Olympics and Spring Festival, the project continued to advance in an orderly manner, and with the end of the Spring Festival holiday, builders from all over the country returned to the project one after another, and the speed of the work of the work body was further improved.
At present, the reconstruction and reconstruction project of the work body has begun to accelerate significantly, not only the steel structure outer ring beam has been basically installed, 80 main arch ribs have also been hoisted more than 65, and the welding of the secondary beam is also carried out in a tense and orderly manner, according to the information disclosed by the relevant people of Sinobo Workers' Body, in the first quarter of this year, all the steel structure construction will be announced to be completed, and it can be seen from the latest on-site pictures that the image of the complex and exquisite steel structure of the new worker body has become more and more clear.
It is understood that the total construction area of the workers' body transformation and rehabilitation project is as high as 385,000 square meters, and the winning bidding consortium composed of Sinobo Group, Beijing Construction Engineering Group and Huati Group is responsible for the investment, construction and operation during the cooperation period, and the new work body will be completed and delivered at the end of this year. It is worth mentioning that 2022 is the 30th anniversary of the establishment of Beijing Guoan Club, and after hosting the Asian Cup in 2023, the workers' stadium will continue to be used regularly as the home of the Guoan team for a long time. This also effectively avoids the problem of unfavorable use of large venues in the future and avoids waste of resources.
After the renovation and reconstruction, the workers' stadium will appear in front of the fans with a new look, at that time, it will not only be a modern professional football field, but also provide more diversified and rich business experience and composite supporting functions, realize the sustainable operation of the workers' stadium and even the entire workers' sports business circle, improve the utilization value of the non-game, and aim to create a "city landmark", "cultural and sports business card" and "vitality center" to inject new vitality into the economic development of the capital.
In the past 20 years, the workers' body and national security have been inseparable from each other. In the eyes of fans, the workers' stadium is the holy land of football in Beijing, and the Guoan team is the representative of Beijing football. The mountain tsunami of tens of thousands of workers has always been a beautiful scenery of the Chinese professional football league. The design of the professional football field of the new workers' body will make the football atmosphere here more enthusiastic, and the gorgeous appearance of such a stadium, do you expect it?