Beijing Works on Master Plan with the IOC

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Beijing Works on Master Plan with the IOC

Aiming for the best Games ever to be held, Beijing is working with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to develop an overall plan for the event in 2008, organizers said Wednesday in Beijing. The document, titled Master Plan, will detail thousands of tasks which the Beijing Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games (BOCOG) is expected to complete in the next seven years.

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Aiming for the best Games ever to be held, Beijing is working with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to develop an overall plan for the event in 2008, organizers said Wednesday in Beijing.

The document, titled Master Plan, will detail thousands of tasks which the Beijing Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games (BOCOG) and is expected to complete in the next seven years. The IOC also use it to evaluate the preparations of the organizers.

Supplements made in new plan to meet specific situation

Based on the IOC's original version of the plan, the BOCOG has made some supplements and revisions in line with local specific situation and is ready to pass back the revised version to the IOCwhen it hold the 113th session at Salt Lake City early next month.

The IOC will make its own revisions before returning the document to Beijing organizers in April.

"We need several rounds of exchanges. Now we have finished the first round," said Zhang Jian, chief of BOCOG's Project ManagementDepartment. "The Master Plan will be finalized at the end of this year."

According to the plan, the IOC's Coordination Commission of the2008 Olympic Games will visit Beijing in May for the first meetingwith the BOCOG.

Overall planning and designs for the Olympic venues will start this year before bids invitation from home and abroad commences next year.

New logo to be launched to replace the bidding one

By the end of this year, Beijing will also launch a logo for the 2008 Games, replacing the bidding one which is shaped like a person playing taiji, China's traditional shadow boxing.

The old logo remains in use after the BOCOG was established last December.

The old logo has been used too widely, so a new logo would contribute to the protection of the Olympics-related intellectual property rights.

"In June there will be an international conference with expertsfrom the IOC, Salt Lake City, Sydney and Atlanta, and the new logowill be out by the end of this year," said Zhang Ming, a top official of the BOCOG's media and publicity department.

Beijing Olympics Projects Planning, Designing to Complete within 2002

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. Full Story

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