Hot of the Press:
1. U.S. Commercial Service to Support U.S. Pavilion at Stadia & Arena Infrasport - Beijing 2003
2. BOCOG Relocates
3. Olympic Emblem Design Hits 2nd Phase
4. BDPC Continues Preparations for Ownership Tenders
U.S. Commercial Service to Support US Pavilion at Stadia & Arena Infrasport -Beijing 2003
The event, which has official Beijing support, is called Stadia & Arena / InfraSport 2003, and will take place at the China World Trade Center from January 22-24, 2003. The event is concerned with the development of all sports facilities and supporting municipal infrastructure necessary for the successful staging of the 2008 Olympic Games. For a detailed profile of the event, you might find the official event website useful: http://www.saibeijing.com
The U.S. Commercial Service in Beijing, in association with the event’s organizers, will be putting together a group of U.S. firms at the exhibition. The U.S. Group, which will be supported on-site by USCS, will be attractively designed and will be located in a prominent position in the main exhibition hall. USCS will host a pre-show briefing, which will be particularly useful for new-to-market firms.
Firms with experience in the delivery of Olympic venues and infrastructure services wishing to propose speakers for the SAI Beijing 2003 Conference, should contact the event organizers as soon as possible at the following:
Media Generation Events Ltd.
Mark Beaumont
markbeaumont@mediageneration.co.uk
http://www.saibeijing.com
BOCOG Relocates
(www.beijing-2008.org)
The Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad (BOCOG) has moved to the new headquarters. The new offices were officially put into use on October 10.
Occupying 5 floors of an office building in downtown Beijing, the new headquarters covers an area of 7000 square meters, accommodating 14 departments of BOCOG. The new BOCOG address is No. 24, Dongsi Shitiao Street, Beijing, China, and the hotline telephone and fax numbers remain unchanged as 86-10-6528-2009 and 86-10-6528-2008.
Olympic Emblem Design Hits 2nd Phase
(China Daily - Liu Li - 10/12/2002)
The Beijing Organizing Committee for the 2008 Olympic Games received 1,994 design submissions for the Games' emblem by last Tuesday, when the three-month competition for the emblem designs for the 2008 Olympics ended.
The competition is expected to enter the second stage on Monday, involving experts' appraisals, vice-president of the committee, Jiang Xiaoyu, announced yesterday at a press conference.
Nearly 89 per cent of the designs, 1,766 of the 1,994 total, are local submissions (including the Chinese mainland, Taiwan Province, and the Hong Kong and Macao special administrative regions), according to Jiang.
Foreign designers from Asia, Europe, America and Oceania also took an active part in the competition, submitting 228 designs.
Among the overseas competitors are some of the world's top design companies that have taken part in designing the emblems for the 1996 and 2000 summer Olympics, the 1998 and 2002 winter Olympics and the 2002 World Cup, according to Jiang.
Jiang declined to reveal the names of the design companies in order to guarantee fairness in the upcoming competition.
The final emblem for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games will be announced in April next year, after first being approved by the International Olympic Committee Executive Board in December.
Before that, a special experts review committee consisting of seven members from home and four from abroad will hold a two-phase appraisal.
BDPC Continues Preparations for Ownership Tenders
(10/17/2002 - Beijing Development & Planning Commission)
On September 20, 2002 the "Beijing Olympic Green, Area B Sports Venues & Affiliated Facilities Presentation of Projects Ownership Tendering" was held in the Beijing International Hotel. The event was organized by the Development Planning Commission of the People's Government of Beijing Municipality (BDPC). The information presented at the event was "unofficial" and meant only to be a preview of the upcoming ownership tenders. Only recently, has the information presented been made public.
The session was presided by Mr. Shen Baochang, Director, Ms. Wu Guiying, Vice Director and Mr. Liu Zhi, Vice Director. Mr. Shen and Mr. Liu both made presentations and later answered many questions raised by the public. The BDPC distributed a brochure as well as a CD ROM. Copies of the "unofficial" information presented can be found in PDF format on the Olympics section of the U.S. Commercial Service website http://www.buyusa.gov/china/en/olympics.html.
Adjustments to the schedule for the ownership tenders have been constant, but the most updated timeline shows the tender process in two steps: first a "pre-qualification - call for expression of interest" (documents expected to be available October 28th), and a full tender for selected groups (late January 2003). The pre-qualified parties will have more time to prepare their offer, with a deadline for proposals expected to be around July 1, 2003.
Comments, suggestions, and questions on the Ownership Tenders can be directed to Gilbert Van Kerckhove, who is a Delegate for the Beijing Development Planning Commission on Beijing's Olympic projects.
Gilbert Van Kerckhove
Delegate - Investment Promotion
Office for Beijing Olympics 2008 projects
Beijing Municipal Government
Development Planning Commission (BDPC)
Tel: (86-10) 6553-2151 or 6552-0764
Fax: (86-10) 6553-2148
Mobile: (86) 136-0139-2009
Email: gvk@public3.bta.net.cn
Beijing Releases Olympic Action Plan - Environmental Sub-Plan
(http://sports.shou.com, 09/16/2002)
On September 6th, the Beijing Municipal Government and BOCOG released the first sub-plan (draft) of the Olympic Action Plan - Environmental and Ecological - to the public to solicit suggestions from China and overseas. The sub-plan lays out details for Beijing's “Green Olympics."
It has been reported that the Beijing Olympic Action Plan, which went public on July 13, will include 7 sub-plans which will be released to public every half month from September to December to collect comments. In addition to the Environmental and Ecological Plan, other sub-plans include the "Energy Development and Energy Readjustment," "Science Olympics," "Digital Olympics," "Culture Olympics," "Traffic Administration," and "Olympic Venues Construction." As the plans are released to the public, they will be posted on BOCOG's website: http://www.beijing-2008.org.
If you have any suggestions for the City of Beijing, you can send them to the Beijing Development Planning Commission at the following address. Please write "Olympic Games" on the subject line of your envelope, fax, or email.
Mailing Address:
Division of Infrastructure Development
Beijing Development Planning Commission
Ding 2#, Fuxingmen South Street, Xicheng District, Beijing
Zipcode:100031
Email: liubo@beic.gov.cn
Fax: (86-10) 6641-0891
Hotline: (86-10) 6641-0869
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Editor: David Snodgrass
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