Olympic Games, Beijing accelerate modernization

The next five years, Beijing's urban infrastructure construction will invest a record 180 billion yuan, 142 key construction projects, to shorten the full equal status with foreign cities of the country. Of which: 90 billion yuan for the construction of subway, light rail, highway, airport and create ease of rapid transportation network; 45 billion yuan for environmental management, and the sky bluer, the water clearer, and more green; 30 billion yuan for the construction of information, for the "Digital Beijing" basis, the initial realization of e-government, e-commerce, information-based communities and distance education; 15 billion yuan used for electric hot water facilities in the life of the building and transformation. At the same time, with 29 large-scale construction of Olympic facilities, urban landscape and to promote Beijing residents to improve the living conditions; City completed more than 900 million square meters of existing Wei Jiufang transformation tasks, and the per capita housing area will be increased to 18 square meters of world attention The style of the ancient capital will continue to be protected. At present, Beijing launched a 330 million yuan for the special fund and promote social investment 1.4 billion, into the old city to rescue cultural relics, renovated. By 2008, Beijing will take the lead in realizing modernization in the country, from the construction of world-class level in the framework of the international metropolis.