“this former site was the second floor of sky river park station, no different from the normal one.” guangzhou metro resources company commercial operating group branch secretary lee guang stood at the guangzhou metro picball centre, which is under one layer at tianhu park metro station, and watched the crowds express their outrage. Today, it has seven areas of professional picker fields and three areas of tennis tennis training, with nearly 100 per cent site utilization since its opening on 1 october。
At 11 a. M., journalists were able to observe that all the picball fields were fully staffed. There are young people on the scene who are flexible to kill, as well as middle-aged older people who are able to keep up, and there's the sound and the laugh. "i didn't think i'd be able to play in the subway, cool and convenient!" mr. Huang, who had been sweating for two hours, said that he had made an appointment at the scene early in the morning, “it's a hot spot and it'll be full soon”。
Why set up the pike fields? Li guang explained that the subway space is limited in size, that football is difficult to carry out and that the picball is less demanding than the field and that “the red book is hot and easy to enter, and men, women and children can find happiness quickly”. He described the current main group of visitors, including commuters, residents of the neighbourhood, students and enthusiasts arriving on special trips, as “a new habit for many people by showing up for work”。
Ms. Wong, who lives nearby, has been a regular visitor to this picker field and has been here three times this week. And she said, "the subway is nice, with a central air conditioner, cool and comfortable. It's an interesting exercise that combines the virtues of badminton and ping-pong. She laughed that picball was now “almost like a popular movement” and that she had just learned to fall in love. She and her friends came to make an appointment at 10, the venue was full, and she waited until 12, "it's worth it, it's fun!"
In addition to the construction of the “train+sport” civilian fitness scene at tianhe park station, the sports space at the subway biwako station, which had previously developed a sports industry, has been upgraded from one generation to another — the ping-pong centre is officially operational, with 20 tables; and the pike centre has two additional spaces, totalling 12, with over 70,000 cumulative services since its launch in october 2025. The national holiday, the sky river park and the biwako two stations have hosted more than 5,500 citizens。
Li guang indicated that in the future, sports sites will be promoted “one stop at a time” according to the conditions of the stations and the preferences of the surrounding population, and the subway will be upgraded from a single transport hub to an urban living space that integrates travel, services and movement, with a “transport hub + linguistic space” operating model that embeds professional sports scenes into the urban commuter network. “hopes to create sports spaces on the commuting road and in front of the home, so that sport can be integrated into everyday life.” as he said。
