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Beijing round the clock
(China Daily)
Updated: 2007-08-08 12:13
16:00
A security guard is on his shift at the National Stadium, the centerpiece of the Olympics.
Numbers Games
About 100,000 security guards from across the country will be on duty during the Games.
About 30,000 well-trained police will keep a tight watch over the city.
Beijing will spend over $300 million on anti-terrorism efforts.
17:00
Policeman Li An'an directs traffic at the junction of Chang'an Avenue and Ritan Road.
Numbers Games
About 1,000 new and second-hand cars are registered in Beijing each day.
Local media have reported the city would withdraw a large number of its more than 3 million vehicles from the streets during the pre-Olympics test events, with the first of the series starting today in Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park.
According to NGO surveys, when Beijing ordered 800,000 cars off the roads during last November's Sino-Africa Summit, nitrogen oxide pollution plummeted by 40 percent.
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