The Beijing Olympic Press Centre is launched in a high-profile ceremony today to meet the increasing demand of domestic and international media for the information about the Beijing 2008 Games.

 

"A successful Olympic Games cannot do without the extensive participation by and vigorous support of the media," Jiang Xiaoyu, Vice-President of the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad (BOCOG), said at the ceremony. "To provide high-standard media services is an important part of BOCOG's work to host a successful Olympic Games."

 

In his speech, Jiang extended his sincere invitation to journalists from both home and abroad to cover Beijing's Olympic preparations and China's rapid development and to promote the understanding of China by people all over the world, saying that "in the next stage, Beijing will learn from previous Games their successful experience and expertise so as to further improve the news and information releasing of the 2008 Olympics, and to upgrade Beijing's Olympic media services."

 

"Greater efforts will be made to further promote the theme of 'New Beijing, Great Olympics' and to showcase to the entire world the new images of Beijing and China," Jiang concluded.

 

The Beijing Olympic Press Center is jointly operated by BOCOG's Media and Communications Department and the Press Office of the Beijing Municipal Government. It is designed to assist, with packaged services, overseas and domestic media in their coverage of BOCOG's preparatory efforts as well as other tasks undertaken by relevant municipal government agencies. Moreover, press conferences and media briefings will be held on a regular basis to ensure the more authoritative and systematic release of the Olympics-related information. The centre will also organize social gatherings and cultural activities for international and domestic journalists.

 

At the launching ceremony, the plaque for the Beijing Olympic Press Center was unveiled by Long Xinmin, Vice-Secretary of Beijing Municipal Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), Li Dongsheng, Vice-Minister of CCP's Publicity Department, Wang Guoqing, Deputy Director of the Information Office of the State Council, and Keven Gosper, IOC member and Vice-President of the IOC Coordination Commission for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad.

 

For further information, please contact Mr Chen Ping at the Beijing Olympic Press Centre:

 

Tel: (8610) 6236-2008   Fax: (8610) 6204-2008

 

Email: chenping@beijing-olympic.org.cn

 

The centre is lcoated in:

Building B, Huabei Hotel, No 19, Gulouwaidajie, Chaoyang District, Beijing