When preparing for the Olympic Sailing Event and Paralympic Sailing Event, Qingdao gave prominence to the theme of "New Qingdao, New Olympics", followed the ideas of "Green Olympics, Hi-tech Olympics and the People's Olympics" and made great efforts to realize the goal of "high-level Olympic Games with distinguishing features". Qingdao successfully held the Qingdao International Regatta in the two consecutive years of 2006 and 2007; it also successfully held the International Handicap Sailing Invitational Tournament in 2008. Making the best of the combination of mountain, water and city, and the urban feature of harmony between man and nature, Qingdao exerts great efforts in developing marine sport and has established an Asia-best and international advanced marine sport base, showed the feature of "Marine Olympics", and gradually created the "capital of sailing" in China.

    Inspired by the Olympic spirit, national body-building sport was widely developed in Qingdao; since 2003, Qingdao has held the opening ceremony of nationwide mountain-climbing sport each year, and the sport has become a widely known "Brand" activity. Qingdao is the hometown of field and track events and the city of football in China. At the 29th Olympic Games Qingdao's athletes won one gold medal, one silver medal and two bronze medals , realizing the breakthrough of "zero" gold medal of Qingdao in Olympic Games. At the Paralympic Games Qingdao's athletes won one gold medal and one silver medal , and the national blind football team trained for a long time in Qingdao won a silver medal. All these fully show the city's charm on sport development. 

    The successful Olympic Sailing Event and Paralympic Sailing Event have not only showed the appeal of a prosperous, civilized and harmonious city, added  Qingdao element to modern sailing sport, but also set a new milestone for the 100-year Qingdao, leaving rich Olympic heritages. Olympic effect is accelerating the great change of the city, Olympic culture is improving the level of the city's civilization, and Olympic spirit is inspiring all the citizens to walk towards the future with a brand-new look!

    Qingdao Olympic Sailing Center

    Qingdao Olympic Sailing Center is located on the old site of the Beihai shipyard by Qingdao's Fushan Bay in the eastern new zone, neighboring on May 4th Square and Donghai Road. It occupies about 45 hectares, including 30 hectares of stadium area and 15 hectares of post-event development area. The necessary facilities of Olympic Sailing Event and Paralympic Sailing Event include the Olympic Sub-Village, the athletes' center, the administration and competition management  center, the press center and the logistic and functional center. The affiliated facilities include the measurement hall dock, the boat parking  area, the major breakwater, the secondary breakwater, an embankment, a quay featuring the Olympic Memorial Wall, etc.

    As for the planning and design, Qingdao, adhering to the principles of "sustainable development, putting into full play after events, leaving Olympic heritage", has combined the construction of Olympic sailing stadium with long-term urban development and industry distribution, pioneering in establishing Olympic sailing stadium in urban core area. International bidding was adopted for all project plans, introducing advanced planning conception, planning team and scientific methods, which not only strictly followed the requirement of event venues by International Sailing Federation, but also fully considered the requirement of overall urban planning. All steps and details have showed the conception of "green, hi-tech, people-oriented", not only paying attention to environmental protection, but also attaching importance to continue historic context. Qingdao Olympic Sailing Center has become a modern stadium combining advanced architectural technology with green environmental protection and humanistic care.

    In construction, Qingdao, adhering to the principles of "thrift, sunshine, clean", has made full use of the original facilities of Beihai Shipyard, thus has saved a large investment. Qingdao has selected experienced construction teams with advanced technology and equipments, adopted first-class construction technology, high quality engineering materials and scientific construction supervision, carried out public bidding policy for project design, construction and materials, and established Olympic Sailing Supervision Committee to track and audit Olympic Sailing Center project in the entire process to ensure the security and highly efficient use of construction fund.

    In investment mode, Qingdao, adhering to the principles of "no financial input, market operation", has totally invested 3.28 billion yuan in Olympic Sailing Center (1.78 billion yuan of compensation for Beihai Shipyard removal and 1.5 billion yuan of project construction investment). All the fund came from the selling of development area, the post-event use of stadium and facilities and other market financing methods, which has basically realized the balance between income and expenditure.

    Qingdao Olympic Sailing Center is not only a world-class sailboat race stadium, but also a new city landmark landscape. Main structures are awarded "Luban Award", the top award of Chinese engineering quality. Chairman Goran Petersen, International Sailing Federation said, "Qingdao Olympics stadium is the best Olympic water sport stadium I have ever seen." During the games, it is a competition venue with complete function and advanced facilities; after the games, it is a tourist, leisure, body-building and entertainment place, and a 5A-class tourist attraction open to public. It will become a marine sport center to popularize sailboat and sailboard sports in the whole country and a training base of teenager sailboat sport.

    In February 2009, the toughest and the most challenging navigation event ? Volvo Ocean Race made a stopover in Qingdao for the first time, which is the first China's stopover port in the new ship route of the Race. Meanwhile, this is not only the first international race Qingdao Olympic Sailing Center held after the Olympic Games, but also makes the Center the first to hold international race in all stadiums of Beijing Olympic Games after the Olympic Games. In the future, it will hold Clipper, "America Cup", "Asian Cup" and other international sailing races, China International Marine Festival and other festival activities. From 2009, the Olympic Sailing Center will hold the activity of Qingdao International Sailboat Week in each August, the annual Asian-European International Sailboat Invitational Tournament, International OP Sailboat summer camp and Qingdao International OP Sailboat Race, "Mayor Cup" Qingdao-Dalian Sailboat Rally, National Sailboat Championship, Qingdao Marine Sampan Game and other domestic and overseas sailboat and marine sport events. It will gradually become an international famous water sport center and a major carrier of international sports cultural exchanges, enlarging the brand effect of "Capital of Sailing" and further showing the charm and image of Qingdao.