Lion dancers and news affecting both summer and winter Olympic Games in Beijing will become the first city to host the onset of Friday came as the confetti policy.
The Summer Olympics in Beijing in 2008, after receiving the celebrations exploded in glee than 14 years ago, it was much more muted, although the local people in their city to host the Winter Olympics in 2022 and try to win praise.
About 500 participants attended the celebration in advance of an event centered around the famous bird's nest stadium. Liu Yunshan, head of the Communist Party, and thanked the crowd and the support of the federal government's commitment to this effort.
"In my whole life," Yang participated in the organization of the Olympic Games in 2008, as well as those who were looking forward to dealing with the winter event Linping, the chairman of the board of directors of the National Indoor Stadium. "As a result of this, I hope, and I am very happy."
On the street, the city's residents and visitors of the International Olympic Committee and the Chinese organizers have been in the high 90s and expressed satisfaction that reflect the level of support. Beijing's many private factories and strict restrictions imposed on drivers in 2008 during the Olympic Games, both of which have been reduced to improve the city's notorious pollution and heavy traffic, looked forward to.
"I feel happy and proud," The Office, 24-year-old Li Yi, in downtown Beijing, an official said. "And I see a big boost for air quality and traffic conditions Hope -. This is something related to the quality of life in the city"
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"The international standing even higher," Bird's Nest near a college student, said Jenny Jiang and Beijing 2022 Games to the stadium. "We saw what happened after 2008, and I'm sure it will be just as good this time."
However, the mood in Beijing for the first time to host the Olympic Games was a dream for a long time and then it was considerably more than in 2001 was unprovoked. Waving flags and so seldom felt in the capital, freedom and joy, often stubborn, authoritarian communist state dripping slogans and Vibe chanting, that year, the public will be admitted to the Tiananmen Square in the heart of the city, and stay up all night.
Beijing was likely to go to a vote on Friday and seasoned acting itself as a safe alternative to the beat of his head. Games for two players, six of the nine ad hoc venues, including the Bird's Nest Arena cubic adjacent waters are already in place. This is closely linked to the sustainability of the economy and the new logo of the International Olympic Committee, hewing approximately $ 3000000000 total cost of operation and infrastructure, helps.
Concerns 60 and 140 kilometers (40 and 90 miles) from the city, located in the mountains, the distance, and Beijing to cut the travel time to 50 minutes of high-speed trains that have already been published, though.
Nearly $ 40 billion for the 2008 Summer Games in the price of the end, and the new stadium and the Metro subway lines and residential complexes around the city came with the sign. The exhibition in the city, starting from the installation ceremony for the opening of the Bird's Nest, in Beijing, despite the human rights group accused the continued persecution, regulatory efficiency.
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Hong Kong, the liberal lawmaker Albert City in 2022, Beijing was awarded the Olympic Games is a mistake.
"This is very disappointing. This is Beijing and the whole world is interested in the human rights situation in China gives the wrong signal, and that he only cares that China is an emerging power," he said. "IOC has lost the spirit of the Olympic Games."
Beijing is unlikely to change the profile of the city center, but because of the many similarities, Mountain Sports stadiums are likely to see a significant change in the area. Companies, real estate speculators to accumulate in, looking for an opportunity to take advantage of the attention paid to add the seal to be counted.
In Chongli outside Beijing, the 80-year-old resident of North Yuelai China the right to host the Winter Olympic Games in order to achieve it was a long wait.
"I'm very happy," he said, "I do not know if I will live to see the games, though.", He said
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Yu Bing in Beijing contributed Assistant message, a news video Chongli law in Hong Kong this report Violet Parra and author of the Erez.