Venues for 2022 Winter Olympics resume construction amid epidemic
By Ji Fang, Wang Liang, People’s Daily
Beijing is now making efforts to push ahead
with venue construction for the 2022 Winter
Olympic Games in an orderly manner amid novel coronavirus pneumonia epidemic
prevention and control.
Currently, 15 projects, including the National
Speed Skating Oval, the National Aquatics Center, the National Alpine Skiing
Center, the Yanqing Winter Olympic Village, and the Yanqing Mountain News
Center have resumed construction to ensure timely completion.
Strong epidemic prevention and control measures
are what come before the construction. Therefore, the three competition zones
for the Winter Olympics in Beijing, Yanqing and Zhangjiakou made a quick
response after the outbreak of the novel coronavirus, requiring projects to
implement close-off management at sites and ensure regular disinfection and
close monitoring of workers’ temperatures. These sites are also requested to
report information on a daily basis, enhance dormitory management, and offer
meals in shifts.
At the construction site of the National Alpine
Skiing Center, a 600-meter-long track has been completed. Alpine skiing events
have a high requirement for tracks’ surface hardness, so it calls for high
precision in both making and compacting the snow.
To make the snow track meet standards, the
project team had only two days off during the 7-day Chinese New Year holiday.
They went back to the project site in Xiaohaituo Mountain in Yanqing, a
district in northwest Beijing on the second day of the Chinese New Year.
The team had full concentration on and
commitment to the project, and the data of temperature, solar illuminance and
air velocity they collected will also serve future events to be held there.
At the Shougang Industrial Park in Beijing, the
Beijing Organizing Committee for the 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games
(BOCOG) has resumed work, and its staff are all wearing masks at the workplace.
Before entering the industrial park and the office buildings, the staff have to
have their body temperatures checked. In addition, the offices are disinfected
and ventilated on a regular basis, and meals are delivered by the canteen to
the staff to avoid cross-infection.
At present, the organizing committee’s external
liaison and work deployment rely on telephone and video conferences.
Zhang Jiandong, vice mayor of Beijing and
executive vice president of the BOCOG, said that this video
conference reflected the understanding and support from the IOC when the
Chinese people are fighting against the novel coronavirus epidemic.
At the conference, IOC vice president Juan
Antonio Samaranch Jr. praised the decisive and efficient measures China has
taken to combat the epidemic. He said the IOC will stand firmly with the BOCOG
in the epidemic.
"We are very, very proud of (China’s)
proficiency and dedication," said Samaranch Jr., extending his confidence
in China’s victory over the epidemic.
The landmark venue for the 2022 Winter Olympics
- the National Speed Skating Oval, also known as the "Ice Ribbon", is
capped, Dec. 31, 2019. Photo by He Yong/People’s Daily
Venues for 2022 Winter Olympics resume construction amid epidemic
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