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BOCOG holds 72nd executive board meeting
(BOCOG)
Updated: 2006-10-21 16:58
The Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad (BOCOG) held its 72nd Executive Board meeting in Beijing on Thursday.
The meeting heard a report on the preliminary accounts for the operational and commanding system of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. It is the basic guarantee and an important part of the preparatory work to establish a reasonable and efficient system.
The system need to be arranged with less administrative levels, well-defined relation between liability and responsibility, strong in coordination, swift in information transmitting, effective in managing, and able to cope with emergency circumstances, in that the Olympic and Paralympic Games will involve many parties, and will be service- and activity-intensive and long-lasting.
The meeting pointed out that successful experience of past Games will be absorbed to build a managing pattern with Chinese characteristics. The overall planning and coordination functions of the system will be strengthened to improve efficiency.
The attendees heard a report on the general work project for the 2007-2008 test events of the Beijing Olympic and Paralympic Games. The test events are an important carrier to checkout the efficiency of the preparations for the Olympic and Paralympic Games. A total of 42 test events will be held from August 2007 to May 2008. Through such events, further examination will be done to improve the equipment, train the managing teams, explore the operational disciplines, integrate the mechanism and ensure logistics with an aim to perfect the service project for the whole process of the Olympic Games.
The meeting emphasized the need to strengthen the organization of the test event teams and the competition organizing committees and called for the forming of a work scheme with BOCOG as its main component while taking local authorities as participants. The Games-time command system should be tested comprehensively according to the Olympic operational mode. The organizational work for the Paralympic test events should be strengthened. Close cooperation with the international sport federations should be enhanced and the organizational work for all test events should be carried out in a down-to-earth way to meet the goal of staging a high-level Olympics with distinguishing features.
The meeting also held discussions on other matters.
BOCOG President Liu Qi, who is also member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and secretary of the Beijing Municipal Committee of CPC, chaired the meeting.
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