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Huizhou Olympic Stadium

building in Huizhou, China

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ5935303 ↗
Source-derived summary

Huizhou Olympic Stadium (Chinese: 惠州奥林匹克体育场) is a multi-purpose stadium in Huizhou, Guangdong, China, that opened in 2010.

The stadium holds 40,000 spectators. It is currently used mostly for football matches. It served as the home stadium for Shenzhen Ruby of the Chinese Super League during the 2011 season. It also served as the home stadium for the Guangdong football team in the 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015 Guangdong–Hong Kong Cup.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Huizhou Olympic Stadium” as building in Huizhou, China. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Huizhou, Olympic and Stadium.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2010, 2011, 2012, 2013—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2010-02-05. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Huizhou, Olympic and Stadium providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Huizhou Olympic Stadium”, the useful work is to connect “building in Huizhou, China” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5935303. Authority coordinates are 23.033, 114.447. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Huizhou Olympic Stadium” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.