The XXIV Winter Olympics will open in Beijing on February 4, 2022. The Sports Department of China News Network launched a series of columns "100 Questions about the Winter Olympics", which aims to popularize the knowledge of the Winter Olympics, answer hot questions, and talk about ice and snow anecdotes, so as to help everyone have a better viewing experience during the Beijing Winter Olympics.
No. 72 Winter Olympics 100 Questions | What is special about the main media center of the Beijing Winter Olympics?
14 years ago, the main news center and international broadcasting center of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, tens of thousands of news reports were sent to the world, recording and disseminating this "unparalleled" Olympic event, from the opening to the final chapter.
Now, across the road, the second phase of the National Convention Center project is located here. As the main press center of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games and the international broadcasting center, during the Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games, the "Flying Bird" will carry a "letter" full of ice and snow passion to every corner of the global village to participate in the grand event of winter sports.
Beijing China National Convention Center Phase II. Photo by China News Service reporter Tomita
Start of construction latest The largest scale
As the latest and largest new project in the Beijing Division of the Winter Olympic Games, the second phase of the National Convention Center project takes "global vision, international standards, Chinese characteristics, big country style, and scientific and technological leadership" as the construction goal, and strives to become a "high-quality masterpiece of capital construction in the new era".
On December 15, 2021, the main media center of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games was officially delivered to the Beijing Winter Olympic Organizing Committee for use. According to the relevant person in charge of Beichen Industrial Group Co., Ltd., the main building of the second phase of the National Convention Center project presents a "Kunpeng spread wings" structural shape, with its "flock of birds" outer curtain wall shape, highlighting the design concept of "harmonious coexistence between architecture and nature".
In order to further intensify the space and improve the operational efficiency and service level of the venues, it is not only the international news editorial department and the television signal production and transmission center that reports and broadcasts the grand events of the Beijing Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games, but also the time headquarters for the media operation of the International Olympic Committee, the Olympic Broadcasting Service Company and the media operation of the Beijing Winter Olympic Organizing Committee.
The main press center of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games and the International Broadcasting Center will serve and receive more than 3,000 text and photojournalists from more than 100 countries and regions during the Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games, and 12,000 reporters and staff of more than 200 broadcasting agencies, becoming the first window for the world to understand the Winter Olympic Games, Beijing and China.
The main project of the second phase of the China National Convention Center, with a total construction area of 419,000 square meters, is the latest and largest new project to start construction in the Beijing area of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games. Photo by China News Service reporter Tomita
Green Olympics harmonious and symbiotic
In order to highlight the concept of "green Olympic Games", the second phase of the National Convention Center project was built in accordance with the three-star standard of green building and the STANDARD of LEED platinum level in the United States. The three-storey roof garden of the conference center adopts an open roof design, and the glass lighting roof of about 3,000 square meters can achieve large-scale electric opening and closing, enhance natural ventilation and natural lighting effects, and activate the smoke exhaust function.
At the same time, the venue makes full use of renewable energy, a total of 600 square meters of solar thermal system collectors are designed and installed, which can meet the domestic hot water demand of 17.5 tons / day; the full air air conditioning system in the main body can adjust the fresh air ratio to 70% in the transition season, saving about 31% of the annual electricity consumption, and the annual power savings can be used for an electric new energy vehicle to travel 54.5 million kilometers and circle the earth 1363 times.
The east, south and north façades of the main building are composed of metal and glass curtain walls in the shape of a special curtain wall unit - "Bird Window". The 2376 curtain wall units are connected into a surface, just like a group of light birds, with the shape of the main body of the building" "Kunpeng spreading its wings", "such as the bird Sige, such as The Fly", highlighting the flexible rhythm of the harmonious echo between the building and nature.
The Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics will practice the concept of "frugality" in hosting the Olympic Games, "borrow" urban infrastructure to serve the Winter Olympics, and continue to serve the people's livelihood and development of the city after the Games, which has become another innovation in Beijing's Olympic Games. The second phase of the China National Convention Center is an important facility to strengthen the function of the capital's international exchange center. During the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games, it will temporarily serve as the main media center of the Winter Olympics, serving the media of the world, and will return to the original exhibition function after the game.
24/7 service intelligent operation
The 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics will not only be a shared event, an open event, and a clean event, but also an Olympic Games full of science and technology. As the "arena" of world media competition, the main press center of the Beijing Winter Olympics will not be an exception. With the blessing of science and technology and meticulous service, it will also provide the most solid guarantee for news media reporters.
Zhang Lidong, director of the Engineering Department of Beijing Beichen Convention and Exhibition Investment Co., Ltd., revealed that the restaurant providing catering services for the media will also be built into a "smart restaurant", with a total area of about 6,000 square meters of robot restaurants, divided into Western-style fast food areas and Chinese-style fast food areas, and after the official operation, there will be about 120 catering robots such as hamburger robots, wok robots, pot rice robots, snack robots, etc., which can serve thousands of people at the same time.
In terms of epidemic prevention, the second phase of the National Assembly will rely on the intelligent epidemic prevention platform during the Winter Olympic Games to form an intelligent analysis system for video surveillance of the Winter Olympics. From the beginning of the personnel entering the venue, the system begins to supervise its epidemic prevention data, and once an abnormality occurs, the system linkage alarms, and can trace all the personnel contacted by the abnormal personnel during the activities of the venue to strengthen epidemic prevention management.
During the Beijing Winter Olympics, a number of multi-type service robots such as food delivery, delivery, guidance, killing, and waste removal will be unveiled to create a "unmanned" digital service scene and provide 24-hour convenient services for news media reporters. For example, the epidemic prevention robot provides cruise and killing services, and the waste removal robot can judge the capacity by itself, go to the clearance point, and then return to the temporary storage point.
Kunpeng has spread its wings and is waiting for the arrival of visitors from all over the world! (Wang Yu)