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18th January 2006

China receives assistance from former Olympic hosting countries

China receives assistance from former Olympic hosting countries: Sydney and Athens.

Greece spent a record 1.5 billion US dollars on security for the 2004 Olympics, the first summer games since the September 11, 2001 terror attacks. The Greeks also received regular security advice from several countries, including the United States and Britain. Besides security issues, the Beijing organizers will get more support from Australia as the permanent China representative office of Sydney-Beijing Olympic Secretariat (SBOS) was set up Tuesday.

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12th January 2006

China calls for Olympic medal designs

“The designs for the Beijing Olympic medals should highlight the themes of ‘glory and dream’ and ‘faster, higher and stronger’,” Zhang Ming, deputy director of BOCOG’s Culture and Ceremonies Department, said at the press conference. “The medals should be the material vehicles to disseminate the Olympic ideals and the concepts of the Beijing Games, to showcase China’s arts, designs and scientific and technological development. They should become the unique legacy of the Beijing Games.”

See here for more details on the Olympic medal competition.

7th January 2006

Pressure on for rising Chinese tennis champ

The pressure is on for Peng Shuai, who has to give a guarantee that she will win a gold medal at the Beijing Games in 2008, to receive financial aid.

“We want them to have feelings of belonging, safety and honour as individuals in a perfect team and inspire them to want to pay back the motherland for raising them,” said the National Tennis Management Centre director Sun Jinfang.

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China’s Peng told the price of her freedom

1st January 2006

Safety plans for the Beijing Olympics

With the ever threat of terorism attacks, the Chinese government has already begun planning its security measures.

Beijing plans to build a security headquarters, composed of a traffic control center, two fire stations and a police bureau. Construction of these facilities will start in April and be completed by the end of 2007.

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Beijing underscores safety in preparations for Olympics

28th December 2005

Olympics spurs job growth in Beijing

It is expected that the Olmpics will bring in an additional 1.82 million jobs to the city.

Most of the jobs will be in construction, but of course there will be numerous vacancies for tourism related work.

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26th December 2005

Building continues through Beijing’s winter months

Building on the national stadium is still going strong through the icy cold winter months in Beijing.

Speaking at a media conference on Tuesday, the spokesperson of the Project Construction Headquarters said that “the principal concrete structure of national stadium has been completed as regards to the roof in the mid of November and now the steel structure construction is being undertaken.”

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Tickets to go on sale from 2007

“We will not unveil the tickets sales scheme until early next year,” said Liu Jingmin, vice mayor of Beijing and vice executive president of the Games’ organizing committee.

“Except for those reserved for the Olympic family, most of the tickets will be sold on the market. Foreign spectators in 202 countries and regions worldwide can buy the tickets via their own Olympic committees,” said Liu.

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Rehearsal for 2008 Olympics

With less than three years away from the Beijing Olympic Games, the quadrennial sports meet, billed as China’s mini-Olympics, is widely regarded as a rehearsal of the Beijing Olympics.

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20th December 2005

Construction picking up in Beijing

Unlike previous Olympic games venue construction is on track in Beijing, and they were even once told to slow down by Olympic organizers.

Eleven new venues are being constructed, 11 venues to be renovated and 9 temporary venues to be set up for the games.

Beijing Olympics Work Picks Up Speed

Shanghai plans airport expansion

It seems like Shanghai is also expecting an influx of visitors in the build up to the 2008 Beijing Games.

They just announced a project to expand the passenger capacity three-fold.

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