Yanqing, one of the three co-hosting areas of the 2022 Winter Olympic Games in Beijing, has made design decisions on its main venues and begun 13 of its 37 construction tasks.

Song Haitian, vice director of the Leading Group Office of the Preparation for the Yanqing Competition Area of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games, said the planning for the core area of the Yanqing competition area has been deliberated and reviewed. 

He said dismantling work had been launched, the tracks of the National Alpine Ski Center had been cleaned, the projects for external supporting pipelines, the Foyukou River Water Ecologic Corridor, reservoir water source protection, and contingency water supply had begun, and a 4.94-kilometer-long road for construction mobilization had been built. 

Yanqing has planned to build a Winter Olympic Forest Park in Zhangshanying Town and the scheme has roughly completed. 

"Zhangshanying Town will be built into a Winter Olympic town to present the green concepts of the games," Song said. 

According to the plan, by 2018, the National Alpine Ski Center will complete 60 percent of its construction, key structures of the Winter Olympic Games Village and the Media Center will see 50 percent of their construction completed, the U-shape structure of the National Sliding Center will be constructed and the Beijing ice sports training base will speed up construction. 

According to Yanqing’s sports authorities, when the 2017-18 winter season ends, the number of students who can ski will reach 10,000 and a dozen of ice and snow sports competitions will be held in 2018 in the area.

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