Qingdao’s Most Advanced "Cradle of Sharpshooters"

Qingdao Shooting Sports Center is located in Chuangzhi New Area, Jimo District, and it is Qingdao’s first professional shooting sports center. Covering a total land area of approximately 243 mu with a total construction area of 42,800 square meters, the total investment of the project is about 285 million yuan. As a professional venue capable of hosting international individual shooting events and large-scale domestic shooting competitions, the building fills the historical gap of large-scale shooting training venues in Qingdao. Construction officially started in November 2016 and was completed in May 2018. It successfully hosted the shooting competition of the 24th Shandong Provincial Games.

Venue Functional Layout

The center consists of two major functional zones: an indoor shooting hall and an outdoor clay target shooting range. The indoor shooting hall includes athletes’ apartments, physical training gym, 10m/25m/50m indoor shooting ranges, ammunition and weapon storage, combined final competition hall and supporting teaching & office areas. The venue can host competitions of 50m and 25m air rifle and air pistol events, as well as 50m and 25m small-bore pistol and rifle events at all levels. The outdoor clay target shooting range is equipped with a comprehensive building, weapon and ammunition storage and six shooting units. The clay target range covers a land area of approximately 40,000 square meters with a total construction area of 4,300 square meters.

Highlights of Steel Structure Engineering

As a shooting venue, its steel structure project has special technical requirements. The steel structure of this project was undertaken by Eihe. The project includes a 7,200-square-meter space grid structure and a 600-meter-long pipe truss for bullet baffles. The space grid structure is adopted for the large-span roof of the indoor shooting hall, while the pipe truss serves as bullet-retaining facilities for the clay target range. After bullets hit the bullet baffles, their kinetic energy can be effectively absorbed to ensure site safety. Zhang Bingkun, coach of Qingdao Shooting Team, once commented: “The training conditions at Qingdao Shooting Sports Center are definitely among the best for amateur teams nationwide, even better than many professional teams. It is fully capable of hosting international shooting competitions.”

Today, this shooting sports center serves not only as the training base for Qingdao Shooting Team, but also integrates sports training, national defense science popularization and public fitness functions. It is a first-class large-scale domestic sports facility combining competitive sports with national fitness.