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The International Olympic Committee (IOC) will send a group of experts to Beijing this week to share their know-how with the 2008 Games organizers on how to stage the quadrennial event successfully.
Headed by Hein Verbruggen, chairman of the IOC's Coordination Commission for the 2008 Olympics, the 23-strong team features Olympic experts in marketing, traffic, tele-broadcasting, environmental protection, security, finance and sports.
During the August 7-9 visit, they will hold discussions with officials of the Beijing Organizing Committee of the 2008 Olympic Games (BOCOG) and pay visits to Olympic Green and Wukesong Sports &Culture Complex, two of the major planned venues of the Games.
The IOC team will also visit a design exhibition for the two venues as well as the Chinese capital city's traffic control center.
It will be the second time for the IOC Coordination Commission to visit Beijing since a six-member fact-finding group visited here late April.
The commission gave their thumbs-up to the preparatory work of BOCOG during its last visit, in particular in such fields as venue construction, accommodation and marketing.
(People's Daily August 7, 2002)
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