Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee: Preparations are in place, and each venue has a post-match utilization plan

At 11:00 a.m. today, a press conference on the theme of "Winter Olympics, Sports, and Culture" was held in the Lichun Hall on the first floor of the Main Media Center (MMC), and Zhao Weidong and Yan Jiarong, spokesmen of the Winter Olympic Organizing Committee, Yang Yang, director of the Beijing Winter Olympic Organizing Committee and the Winter Paralympic Athletes' Committee, and Wu Xiaonan, head of the national speed skating hall operation team, introduced the relevant situation and answered questions from Chinese and foreign reporters.

Zhao Weidong, director of the Information and Propaganda Department of the Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee and spokesman of the press, said at the meeting that the Beijing Winter Olympics coincided with the Spring Festival, which is a New Year gift from the international Olympic family to China, and at the same time, China will also give back to the world's "simple, safe and wonderful" Winter Olympic Games.

Before the official start of the press conference, a short film was played on the spot, combining the Spring Festival elements such as sugar gourds, red lanterns, blessings, firecrackers, dumplings, etc., with winter sports elements such as skiing and skating, highlighting the Spring Festival celebration and the passion of winter sports. Zhao Weidong said at the press conference that the theme of the Spring Festival is to say goodbye to the past on the one hand, and say hello to the future on the other hand, "In a few days, the ancient and enterprising China will join hands with the Olympics again, looking back at 2008, Beijing dedicated an unparalleled Olympic Games, and after 14 years, we will once again dedicate a 'simple, safe and wonderful' Winter Olympics." ”

Zhao Weidong said that at present, all the preparations for the Beijing Winter Olympic Games have been prepared: the venues and infrastructure construction have been completed and operated as scheduled, the competition venues have ushered in the official training of athletes, non-competition venues such as the Winter Olympic Village and the main media center have been put into use, and the barrier-free facilities have been comprehensively improved to meet the standards of the Winter Paralympic Games; the guarantee work of the event services has been fully started and healthy operation, and all the hotels, medical care, health care and volunteer services in the three competition areas of Beijing, Yanqing and Zhangjiakou have been operated in a healthy and orderly manner. Hydrogen fuel vehicles, 5G communications, cloud broadcasting, robots and other new technologies have also been demonstrated and applied; sustainable heritage related work goals have been achieved and achieved remarkable results, the Beijing Winter Olympics bid to organize and hold the "Olympic 2020 Agenda", the implementation of sustainable plans, carbon neutrality programs, the completion of ecological services in Yanqing and Zhangjiakou areas, the realization of low-carbon venues, low-carbon transportation, low-carbon standards, green power generation of all venues, the full implementation of the heritage plan, each venue has formulated a post-game utilization plan.

Yan Jiarong, spokesperson of the Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee, said that the Beijing Winter Olympics will be fully integrated into the design and construction of competition venues and non-competition venues, and the image representation and landscape design of the Winter Olympics will be full of Chinese romance. In addition, the Beijing Winter Olympics, which coincide with the opening of the Spring Festival, are full of Chinese New Year flavor, she said: "We have arranged Spring Festival elements such as palace lights, window flowers and lucky characters in the three Winter Olympic villages, main media centers, and resident hotels. In addition, in terms of catering, not only let everyone eat dumplings, spring rolls, roast duck, etc. in the Chinese New Year's Eve and the first day of the first year, but also invite everyone to eat lanterns and tangyuan during the fifteenth round of the first month, so that athletes, guests and journalists from all over the world can experience the charm of the Winter Olympics on the tip of the tongue while enjoying the competition. ”

Source Beijing Daily WeChat public account

Producer: Liu Hao Editor: Zhang Xiaoying

Process Editor Tai Shaofeng