Beijing Olympic Park: new symbol of the metropolitan, beautiful scenery

 The Beijing Olympic Park not only drew attentions in the period of Olympics, but also attracts thousands of tourists after the gala. With distinguished building style and beautiful scenery, the park will become a new symbol of the metropolitan. The park is composed of three major parts----the National Stadium, National Swimming Center, and Nation Indoor Stadium. Olympic Park will not be a decoration of the capital. Instead, it will play a functional part after the Olympic Games. Aiming on the long-term development of Beijing and the demands of the residents, Olympic Park will become a comprehensive park for sport activities, conference exhibitions, entertainment and shopping. The spacious building and beautiful environment will enable it become the center of public activities. 

History and Culture The Olympic Park as planned is to be an expansion on the basis of an extension from the axis to the north during the 11th Asian Games in 1990. It will play an important role in completing the construction of the northern part of the axis. Being at an end of the axis, it will form an imposing sight of urban construction during the expansion, with the World Trade Center projected as the centerpiece of architecture gracing the ground. Beijing Olympic Park is the central area for holding Olympic sports. It contains 44% of the total Olympic sports venues and most of the service facilities. The area will contain 14 sports venues, an Olympic Village for 16,000 athletes, coaches and accompanying staff, reporters’ village with a floor space of 400,000 square meters, as well as a news center an international broadcasting and TV center. The Olympic Park undoubtedly becomes the model of "Green Olympics". The concept of "green" of the Park has far exceeded the category of "growing trees, grass" and "landscaping". The Park also pays attention to economizing on use of energy and water, wind and solar energy, and use of environment-friendly building materials. Besides, the Olympic Park gives a full play to high and sophisticated technology. Digital wide-band network communication, wireless transmit, electronic information technology, Internet technology, intelligent technology, etc, are widely used in the Park.