Towards 2008

Special Moment

13 July£¬2001--112th IOC Session, Moscow -- Election of the Host City of the Games of the XXIX Olympiad in 2008.

13 Dec£¬2001--Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of XXIX Olympiad set up.

3 Aug,2003--the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games emblem unveiled.

13 July£¬2004-- Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games emblem unveiled.

26 June, 2005--Slogan of Beijing 2008 Olympic Games announced.

11 Nov, 2005--the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games mascot unveiled.
The 2008 Beijing Olympic Games countdown reaches the two-year mark on August 8.

Ad firm sees Olympics as games of profit

The mainland's largest outdoor advertiser Clear Media will use the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games as a big momentum to pump up its profits. "The Beijing Olympics is a golden chance for us to grow further," Clear Media's CEO Han Zijing said yesterday, the day the company announced that its first half net profit in 2006 had jumped 14 per cent year on year to HK$42 million...

 

Five friendlies appear in cartoon series

Around 50 million yuan has been invested in the series, which is currently being promoted under its working title "The Friendlies' Olympics Tour".The organizers are currently offering one million yuan worth of awards for ideas and screenplays, which is scheduled to air around the start of the Olympic games...

Beijing unveils plans for 'green' Olympics Games

The upcoming Beijing 2008 Olympics will be a "green" Games thanks to the use of renewable resources.Speaking at a seminar on China's circular economy, Tian Maijiu, deputy director of the Standing Committee of Beijing Municipal People's Congress, revealed that Olympic venues and facilities would make full use of new energy sources...

 

Key Olympic venues to take shape by end of year

Key venues for the Beijing Olympics will take shape by the end of the year. The main structures of the National Stadium, dubbed the "Bird's Nest," and the National Aquatics Centre, or "Water Cube," will shape up in the northern part of the capital over the next five months.

Beijing adds college graduates to 2008 Olympic police

Beijing is recruiting college students to supplement the police forces in an effort to ensure the security of the Olympic Games to be held here in 2008. About 400 students, including 88 females, who will graduate from the Beijing-based universities this summer, participated in a sport test held by the Beijing Special Police Corps.

Olympics torch design to blaze new path

A campaign was launched to find the perfect design for the 2008 Beijing Olympic torch. "Our concepts of the torch design are 'glory and dream, tradition and modernity, culture and harmony,'" said Zhang Ming, deputy director of BOCOG's Culture and Ceremonies Department.

2008 Olympic venues will be ready on time

Beijing Olympic organizers re-affirmed that all competition venues for the 2008 games will be ready by the end of 2007."The construction work is progressing well according to the schedule," Jin Yan, chief of the Beijing 2008 games construction office.

 

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