From 7 to 17 August, the 12th World Games were held in Chengdu, Sichuan. This edition of the Chengdu World Games marked the first time the event was hosted by mainland China, and represented another major international multi-sport event held in China's western region following the 2023 Chengdu Universiade. As Chengdu captured the world's attention, MCC5 undertook a series of construction projects for the Games with a profound sense of responsibility and mission. These encompassed competition venues, operational facilities, and supporting service infrastructure. Through delivering high-quality works, the Group contributed to the event's successful staging, adding lustre to the city of Chengdu.
MMC+IBC
The Main Media Centre (MMC) and International Broadcast Centre (IBC) for the World Games are established within the Western Financial Innovation Centre project developed by MCC5. Here, over 2,000 journalists from 200 global media organisations disseminate the positive narrative of the World Games. With a total floor area of approximately 316,000 square metres, the project embodies the design concept of ‘spring buds breaking through the soil’. It encompasses financial headquarters office zones, financial services clusters, commercial service centres, star-rated hotels, libraries, and art galleries. Notably, during Phase I construction, MCC5 team completed a 110,000-square-metre financial industry cluster in just six months. The project's staggered building heights, thoughtfully spaced landscaped walkways, rooftop terraces, sunken plazas, indoor atriums, and terraced gardens, combined with a futuristic ‘vibrant orange’ colour scheme, create an open and dynamic working environment, ensuring uninterrupted coverage of the event.
Football and Lacrosse Venue
The venues for the World Games' flag football and lacrosse competitions are situated within the Chengdu No. 7 Middle School Eastern Campus project, constructed by MCC5. Athletes from across the globe have competed fiercely here, leaving behind countless thrilling moments. With a total construction area of approximately 165,000m2, the complex encompasses an exchange centre, sports hall, athletics track, and student accommodation. Through meticulous planning and efficient organisation, MCC5's construction team completed the project three months ahead of schedule. Notably, the athletics track meets the highest national standards for hosting major sporting events.
Sports Venue
Spectator stands for the World Games archery and tug-of-war events were set up at the Central Plaza of Chengdu Dong'an Lake Sports Park and Qinglong Lake Wetland Park, where over 10,000 spectators from home and abroad cheered and celebrated. To meet spectator requirements for the Games, MCC5 Construction workers worked to a detailed schedule, back-counting deadlines and overcoming challenges with full commitment. Within seven days, they completed the construction of a 964-square-metre canopy covering 1,060 spectator seats. The entire structure utilised prefabricated steel construction to minimise impact on the park's ecological environment. Post-event, it can be swiftly dismantled for recycling, ensuring safety and environmental sustainability.
To support the opening ceremony and events including wushu, powerlifting, canoeing, and kickboxing, alongside logistical operations, the supporting project for the Chengdu Shuangliu 220kV Xihanggang Substation, constructed by MCC5, was completed and commissioned three months ahead of schedule. This provides robust daily power supply for seven major venues across the three competition zones—High-Tech Zone, Tianfu New Area, and Wuhou District—while advancing Chengdu's new power system development. Furthermore, actively responding to arrangements by relevant departments of Sichuan Province and Chengdu Municipality, MCC5 leveraged its headquarters' resource coordination strengths, by utilising ongoing projects in the Huayang District, Eastern New District, and Dong'an Lake District, it established three emergency rescue points. These sites maintain a reserve of 95 rescue personnel and 67 large-to-medium-sized mechanical devices on round-the-clock standby, ensuring disaster prevention and mitigation efforts during the main flood season and the Chengdu World Games period. This positions the group as a pivotal force in emergency response for the Games.
Though the event has concluded, the legacy endures, MCC5 will continue to harness its formidable technical, managerial, and service capabilities to create further exemplary projects embodying the ‘MCC5 Speed, MCC5 Service, MCC5 Quality’ ethos. We remain fully committed to supporting Chengdu's ‘Three Cities, Two Capitals, One Marketplace’ brand development, contributing state-owned enterprise strength to the endeavour of ‘hosting the Games, building the city, fostering industries, and benefiting the people’.