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Wednesday, 29 March 2006 |
2008 Beijing Olympics plans are on course
The organisers of the 2008 Beijing Olympics say they are on course to
have venues ready and on schedule at the end of next year in spite of
construction problems.
Twenty of the 31 competition venues are having building work done and
it is well underway on the centre-piece National Stadium and the
Aquatic centre.
"We thought we were ahead of schedule but there have been some
problems," said chief economist Wang Zhiyuan, and the organisers
explained that they have had difficulty "applying new technologies".
Construction chief Jun Yuan added: "We have adopted new technologies
unprecedented in China. There are some problems on the technology
resource side which we are trying to tackle."
But he denied that steel shortages were holding up the project.
"All the projects will be finished by the end of 2007, some of them by
August or September 2007 to allow for testing," Jun Yuan said.
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