Venues for the Asian Para Games have been comprehensively upgraded to cater to athletes with disabilities, with all competition areas equipped with barrier-free facilities. DONG XUMING/LONG WEI/FOR CHINA DAILY/XIAO JIAN/CHINA NEWS SERVICE/CHINA DAILY

To facilitate people with disabilities to watch the action, more than 70 general-audience seats have been replaced with 38 accessible-viewing seats. Both sides of the seats are equipped with lifts, while barrier-free facilities are installed in shower rooms, changing rooms and washrooms, according to Fu.

The accessible elevators not only have a low-level button panel for athletes with disabilities, but also feature Chinese and English Braille on the buttons, so that athletes can easily understand and operate them, Fu said.

At Huanglong Sports Centre Stadium, staff have transformed the football pitch used during the Asian Games into a venue for track and field competitions. A total of 153 gold medals will be contested at the venue during the Asian Para Games, making it the venue with the largest number of golds.

"Compared with football, track and field equipment for people with disabilities is very diverse and needs to be subdivided and classified one by one," said Zhang Bin, deputy director of the center. "Within the same sport, there are different specifications of equipment corresponding to different grades, and the volume of equipment involved is relatively large."

The largest number of gold medals means the largest number of award ceremonies.