The opening ceremony of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics was held at the National Stadium. Courtesy of Beijing State-owned Assets Corporation
Beijing, March 17, 2017 -- As the Beijing Winter Paralympic Games come to an end at the "Bird's Nest" at the National Stadium, Beijing State-owned Assets Corporation, as a "double Olympic state-owned enterprise", will open a new operating mode of energy-saving, low-carbon and intelligent services, and after successfully completing the service guarantee tasks for the opening and closing ceremonies of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and Winter Paralympic Games, the "Bird's Nest" will be built into a model that integrates large-scale competitions, national fitness experience, tourism and leisure services, and intelligent operations, comprehensively improving operational energy efficiency. Continue to contribute to the world the "Chinese experience" that was used after the games at the mega-Olympic venues.
In 2022, bird's nest continued the glory of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, becoming the only Olympic main venue in the world that has hosted both the opening and closing ceremonies of the Summer Olympic games and the Summer Paralympic Games, as well as the opening and closing ceremonies of the Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games.
On March 4, the opening ceremony of the Beijing 2022 Winter Paralympic Games was held at the National Stadium. The picture shows the main torch. China News Service reporter Han Haidan photographed
Open a new operating mode of energy-saving, low-carbon and intelligent services
From February 4 to March 13, the four opening and closing ceremonies of the Beijing Winter Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games were held at the National Stadium. The "Bird's Nest" at night is particularly majestic and colorful in the bright lights. The audience has a more personal experience: the sound effect is clear and pleasant, reaching the standard of the national performance venue; 8 windshields are set up at the centralized evacuation passages of the venue, 90 small and medium-sized electronic screens surround the grandstand area, 128 55 °C warm water direct water dispensers are distributed in the audience area, the bathroom sink is equipped with heating devices, and more than 80,000 seat covers are added, so that the audience in the cold winter feels the service of "temperature". At the opening and closing of the Winter Paralympic Games, the "Bird's Nest" added barrier-free ramps, updated barrier-free elevators, and transformed barrier-free toilets in many places to create a safe, smooth and applicable barrier-free environment, reflecting the concept of "people-oriented" everywhere, and reflecting the value pursuit of disability integration and equal sharing everywhere... "Bird's Nest" provided the strongest hardware support for the opening and closing ceremonies that amazed the world with practical actions.
The reporter learned that the "Bird's Nest", the main stadium specially built for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, has become the host of top sports events and large-scale cultural and sports activities at home and abroad after the Olympic Games, and has become a landmark sports building and tourist destination in the capital Beijing. After Beijing and Zhangjiakou successfully bid for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, Beijing State-owned Assets Corporation set up a leading group for the Winter Olympics work in order to do a good job in ensuring the service guarantee of the Winter Olympics, and set up four special working groups, including the working group for the opening and closing ceremonies of the National Stadium, to coordinate and promote the preparatory work.
In order to meet the needs of the opening and closing ceremonies of the Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games, and in order to achieve the sustainable development of the national stadium in the new era, Beijing State-owned Assets Corporation, after scientific analysis, decided to carry out targeted renovation and transformation of the venue, and carried out 37 renovation projects such as landscape lighting system, venue sound reinforcement system, spectator service facility system, air conditioning heating system, and barrier-free facility system. After a year and a half of unremitting efforts, by the end of October 2021, all renovation works were completed. "Bird's Nest" opens a new operating mode of energy-saving, low-carbon and intelligent services.
It is worth mentioning that at the opening and closing ceremonies of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games and the Winter Paralympic Games, the cool "Ice Cube" and the beautiful "Big Snowflakes" slowly rising in the ground warehouse under the center of the "Bird's Nest" stage impressed the audience, which is an important part of the hardware guarantee of the opening and closing ceremonies of the National Stadium. Located under the central site of the "Bird's Nest", the bunker is 100 meters long from north to south and 62 meters wide from east to west, and the center of the bunker is a mechanical stage that can be lifted. The main torch platform of the "Ice Cube" and "Five Rings" and the "Snowflake" shape that the audience saw at the opening and closing ceremonies was raised from the center stage pit.
The National Stadium has carried out 37 renovation projects such as landscape lighting system, venue sound reinforcement system, spectator service facility system, and barrier-free facility system. Courtesy of Beijing State-owned Assets Corporation
Planning for post-match utilization and continuing to contribute to the "Chinese Experience"
The successful holding of the Beijing Winter Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games has renewed the hardware conditions of the "Bird's Nest", polished the "Bird's Nest" double Olympic brand, and trained a working team that has withstood the test of major tasks, providing an important opportunity for the "Bird's Nest" to achieve sustainable development in the new era.
According to reports, since the 2008 Winter Olympics, Beijing State-owned Assets Corporation has actively carried out diversified post-game operations under the "Bird's Nest" and "Water Cube", injecting sports, culture, finance and other resources into the development of the venue. Since its opening and operation, the two Olympic venues of "Bird's Nest" and "Water Cube" have received more than 62 million Chinese and foreign tourists and spectators, held more than 3,500 events, performances, exhibitions and national fitness activities, and achieved breakeven for many years, providing the world with "Chinese experience" in solving the problem of post-competition use of extra-large Olympic venues.
Beijing State-owned Assets Corporation said that in the future, it will take the successful holding of the Winter Olympics as a new starting point, coordinate the new and upgraded "Bird's Nest" to continue to do a good job in ensuring the service of major international and domestic events, and will focus on creating a model that integrates large-scale performances, national fitness experience, tourism and leisure services, and intelligent operations, comprehensively improve operational energy efficiency, and continue to contribute to the world the "Chinese experience" used after the games of the extra-large Olympic venues. Among them, the stage warehouse will be transformed after the game, which will form an underground space with a height of 5.5 meters and an area of 8871 square meters, which can be used as a venue for national fitness, exhibition and display. (End)