Beijing to Apply Clean Energy in Powering Olympic Games GymnasiumsVice-Beijing Mayor Lin Wenyi said Wednesday that all the hot water and most of the electricity for the air conditioning and lighting of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games gymnasiums and villages will be provided by solar and geothermal energy.Lin said here at the opening of the Sino-US Clean Energy Technology Forum that in an effort to present the world with an outstanding Olympic Games, her city has started the drafting of an overall plan for hosting the games. She said energy is an important part of the plan. By the year 2008, Beijing will introduce 5 billion cubic meter of natural gas and large amounts of electricity to replace all the household coal consumption and most industrial coal consumption in the urban areas. Lin Wenyi said that Beijing is to promote cooperation with the US and other countries with advanced clean energy technology. The vice mayor said energy and the environment are the two inseparable paramount issues of today and they are also crucial challenges for Beijing, a fast growing metropolis which has won the bid for the 2008 Olympic Games. She said her city is also to perfect and detail the city's energy policy and build more energy technology service systems in the city. She said the city's "Green Olympics" plan also includes planting more trees and grass in the urban areas and improving the city's sewage and garbage disposal systems. The three-day Sino-US Clean Energy Technology Forum is jointly sponsored by China's Ministry of Science and Technology and the US Department of Energy. |
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