Since the opening of the ISF XI Women's Fast Pitch World Championship in Beijing on August 27, 2006, the Fengtai Softball Field, the venue for the tournament which serves as an Olympic qualifier and test event, has been praised by the participating IOC members, ISF and team officials, players, coaches and media, who all deem it a top-class softball field.

According to Lu Shijie, deputy secretary-general of the event organizing committee, the renovating and expanding work on this softball field, which is also the venue for Olympic softball competition in 2008, started on July 28, 2005. The field, covering a total floor space of 15,570 square metres and with a seating capacity of 13,000, includes a main competition field, a back-up field, two training fields, a functional building and some temporary facilities. Auxiliary projects include the construction of roads connecting with the venue and a parking lot, green areas, timing and scoring devices, lighting and temporary public facilities as well as transportation control system around the venue. 

The concepts of "Green Olympics," "High-tech Olympics" and "People's Olympics" were embodied through the design of the project which features technology in rain water recovery and treatment, photovoltaic and optic-thermo technologies as well as the use of water permeable materials.

Located in the south of the Chinese capital and within 30 minutes' drive from the Olympic Green, the most centralized area of Olympic venues, the Fengtai Softball Field is the first venue completed for the 2008 Olympic Games. The Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XIX Olympiad (BOCOG) will use the data and results of the current 2006 World Softball Championship as a baseline to draw up plans for operation of other venues, so as to push forward the Olympic preparations through a more effective and efficient planning-testing-operating process.