A glimpse of the Beijing Olympic Village (photos attached)

Updated：2007-07-20

(BEIJING, July 20) -- What would the Beijing Olympic Village look like? It will be the world's "First Village" during the Olympic Games in 2008, a journalist of People's Daily says.

Occupying a space area of 66 hectares and located at the northeast corner of the Olympic central area, the village is adjacent to the Olympic Green in the north and the cluster of Olympic venues in south. During the Olympics in August next year, it will be home to over 16,800 athletes, coaches and officials of national teams.

The village is divided into residential and international quarters. The residential area, the main component, will not only have apartments, but also a clinic, a restaurant, a multi-functional library, an entertainment center, a leisure and exercise quarter which contains fitness, swimming, tennis, basketball and walking facilities.

Covering an area of 370,000 square meters, the residential area comprises 22 six-story buildings and 20 nine-story buildings of the same style, with a per capital living area of 22 square meters.

To ensure the athletes' sweet sleep, each bed has been designed to be 2.2 meters long, and a special stool will be added to the end of the bed for giants like Yao Ming, whose body length is 2.26 meters.

Each athlete room is equipped with a wideband line, a telephone, network and closed-circuit TV programs, an infrared burglar-proof warning device and a fingerprint cock. An ID card will be issued to every athlete who can buy things online and contact family members online free of charge, and there are also places for religious worship in the village.

The 20,000-square-meter Olympic Square in the international area will be the most eye-catching spot when the 200 or so flags of the member committees of the International Committee will be waving there.

Olympic Village images

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2008 Beijing Olympic Village Sites

2008 Beijing Olympic Village Sites Construction for the project is scheduled to begin early this summer, and the village will be completed by the end of 2007. The village will be located in District B of the Beijing Olympic Park. It will cover 517,000 square meters, and will consist of apartments for athletes, buildings for Olympic Committees, public facilities for residential districts, service centers and underground parking lots. Please be the eyewitness of the project, when you come to China again on 2008 for the Olympic Games, to see the great changes during these years from nothing to the majestic 760-hectare "Forest Park" within the village)

Olympic village residences on sale

By Yu Nan (chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2007-02-06 16:37

An Olympic Construction Project officer said Monday that a total of 42 commercial resident buildings in the Olympic Village are to go on sale in batches to the public.

Nearly 200 Olympic Village apartment units, the temporary residences where foreign athletes and officials are to stay during the Games, will be sold for an average price of 168,000 yuan (US$21,000) in the first phase of the project, an officer said in a city management broadcasting interview.

Located inside the Olympic Park, with the estimated construction acreage exceeding 370,000sq.m, the prospective community including 22 six-floor blocks and 20 nine-floor blocks in an identical architectural style; are to be transformed into a high-graded living community soon after the Games, according to the officer.

"In addition to the over 200 apartments in eight blocks, another 34 blocks will go on sale, but their price may go up compared to those already sold," the officer said,
"Purchasers won't be able to move in until after the Beijing Olympic and Paralympic Games are over, owing to the high demand for accommodation during the Beijing Olympic Games," he added.