Zhao Weidong, spokesman for the Winter Olympic Organizing Committee: Everything is ready for the Winter Olympics, just waiting for the curtain to open

This morning, the "Winter Olympics, Sports, Culture" theme press conference was held at the Main Media Center (MMC), and Zhao Weidong and Yan Jiarong, spokesmen of the Beijing Winter Olympic Organizing Committee, Yang Yang, chairman 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, lucky characters, firecrackers, dumplings, etc., with winter sports elements such as skiing and skating, highlighting the festive Spring Festival atmosphere and the passion of ice and snow sports. Zhao Weidong said that the theme of the Spring Festival is to say "goodbye" to the past, on the one hand, to say "hello" to the future, "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; 14 years later, we will once again dedicate a 'simple, safe and wonderful' Winter Olympics." ”

Zhao Weidong introduced that all the preparations for the Beijing Winter Olympics 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, the barrier-free facilities have been comprehensively improved to meet the standards of the Winter Paralympic Games; the guarantee of event services has been fully launched, the hotels, medical, health and volunteer services in the three competition areas of Beijing, Yanqing and Zhangjiakou have all been operated in an orderly manner, hydrogen fuel vehicles, 5G communications, cloud broadcasting, New technologies such as robots have also been demonstrated and applied; the goals of sustainable heritage-related work have been achieved and the results have been remarkable, and the Olympic Agenda 2020 has been held throughout the bidding, preparation and holding of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games, and the ecological services of Yanqing and Zhangjiakou have been completed, so as to achieve low-carbon venues, low-carbon transportation, and low-carbon standards, fully implement the heritage plan, and each venue has formulated a post-game utilization plan.

Yan Jiarong, spokesman for the Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee, said that the Beijing Winter Olympics integrate Chinese cultural elements into the design and construction of competition venues and non-competition venues, and are full of Chinese romance in the image logo and landscape design of the Winter Olympics. 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 terms of catering, not only let everyone eat dumplings, spring rolls, roast duck, etc. in the Chinese New Year's Eve, the first day of the first year, we will also let everyone eat the Lantern festival and tangyuan, 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. ”

Reporters Yuan Hongheng, Zhao Xiaosong, Liu Shuang

(Beijing Evening News)