China is building the world’s largest soccer stadium

Evergrande Group has begun work on what will be the world’s largest purpose-built soccer stadium, with a capacity of 100,000 seats, in the southern city of Guangzhou, the Chinese real estate company has said.

Construction of the Guangzhou Evergrande Soccer Stadium with seating capacity of 1,14,000, also dubbed “Lotus Flower Stadium” for its design, started on April 16 and would cost around 12 billion yuan (US$1.69 billion) to complete, the group said.