Beijing 2008 Olympic Games budget

■ budget income: 1.625 billion U.S. dollars
■ budget expenditures: 1.609 billion U.S. dollars
■ expected savings: 16 million U.S. dollars

February 23, held in the Beijing Olympic Committee of Chinese and foreign media news conference, the Beijing Olympic Committee Vice President Jiang Xiaoyu answered a reporter's question. When a reporter asked about hosting the Olympic Games in Beijing need a total amount of money, how much income is around, said Jiang Xiaoyu answer --
2008 Olympics budget set the general requirements are: first, to ensure that the Olympic Games in Beijing, Beijing and the public not to give rise to additional financial risk. Second, we must ensure that the Olympic Games in Beijing, the Olympic Games in financial and related services to the standards of the International Olympic Committee has no risk. Third, we must ensure that the budget revenue and expenditure balance, after rigorous evaluation and analysis, can be expected to achieve
We have developed the 2008 Olympic Games Organizing Committee's budget, revenue is largely 1.625 billion U.S. dollars, expenditures of about 1.609 billion U.S. dollars, the savings can be expected about 16 million U.S. dollars. Of course we still have a lot of the organizing committee budget of the city construction and development, infrastructure construction inputs, such as road traffic to the building, the construction of environmental protection.
From 1998 to 2008, about to invest around 12.2 billion U.S. dollars to improve governance and the environment, protect the environment. According to our current plan, there are eight venues is organized specifically for the construction of the Olympic Games. Beijing to host the Olympic Games have the strength and financial advantages, Beijing's GDP growth from 1990 of 5.4 billion U.S. dollars in 2000 increased to 30 billion U.S. dollars, Beijing's local revenue from 1990's 900 million U.S. dollars in 2000 increased to 4.1 billion Dollar, Beijing has the necessary financial resources to ensure that successfully organized the 2008 Olympic Games, people will not bring additional financial burden. At the same time we still have the support of the central government, enterprises, community participation, to host the 2008 Olympic Games should say that it is completely grasp of. In addition, the organizing committee's budget, it is necessary to ensure the successful holding of the Olympic Games expenditure needs; Second, we also pay great attention to this budget savings, because China has its own national conditions, all aspects of operating costs are relatively low compared .