Beijing Olympics Projects Planning, Designing to Complete within 2002

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Beijing Olympics Projects Planning, Designing to Complete within 2002

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The overall planning and designing for the construction projects for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing will be completed by the end of this year, according to officials of the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad.

The Games organizers had projected 37 competition venues, which include 19 new sites in Beijing such as the National Stadium, a gymnasium and a swimming center, as well as re-furnishing the existing the Workers' Stadium and the Capital Gymnasium.

Also planned are such public facilities as the Olympic Village, the Press Village, the China International Exhibition Center and the Olympic Green.

It was also learned that an open bid shall be launched later this year for the construction and designing of the projects, to domestic and overseas firms. The construction projects are set to begin in 2003 and completed in 2006.

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