Beijing Keeps on Course to Its Olympic Venues' Development

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Beijing Keeps on Course to Its Olympic Venues' Development

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Beijing has set up the Olympic Venue Development Coordination Committee to strengthen the instruction and coordination work for the development of Olympic venues, Beijing Olympic organizers said on Monday.

The Committee is under the leadership of both the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad (BOCOG) and Beijing Municipal Government, and composed of representatives from the related departments of the state and municipal governments, according to Huang Yan, deputy director of the BOCOG' s Department of Venue Development.

The Committee's job is to oversee and coordinate the work of financing, planning and design, engineering, project management, logistic support, and project tendering.

The Committee will also have the responsibility for developing the construction management regulation, establishing the technical standards and supervising the construction progress and project quality control.

Huang also introduced that the major preparatory work for development of the Olympic venues will be accomplished before June 2003.

By then, the general plans for the two areas of Olympic Green and Wukesong Center will have been finalized; and the technique requirements for each Olympic venue will have been studied and defined.

The general plans for Olympic Green and Wukesong Center would be picked out of designs from 177 companies, 60 percent of which are from outside China, as a testimony of Beijing's keeping up with international practices.

To open tendering for the project proprietors and to accomplish the land preparation are also work to be done at this stage from now to June 2003.

As to the funding, Liu Jingmin, vice-mayor of Beijing and executive vice-president of the BOCOG, explained on Monday to the International Olympic Committee Coordination Commission that the Beijing Municipal Government would cover the expenses for the majority of venues.

The BOCOG, according to Liu, will be responsible mainly for collecting funds to repair the existing stadiums and gymnasiums and to set up temporary ones.

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