Beijing 2008 has decided to honour one of the commitments city authorities made in its bid for the 2008 Summer Olympic Games by increasing funding for cultural relic protection to $14.46 million (U.S.) annually until 2008. The municipal government has been spending $12.1 million on cultural relic protection each year.
Two other features of the Beijing Games will be the increase in green coverage and forestation, and increase in the modernization of the city’s infrastructure.
Jian Xiaoyu, vice president of the Beijing Organizing Committee, said Beijing had listed 32 cultural programs under construction for the Olympics involving more than 50 cultural relic protection organizations and including the expansion of LiulichangCulture Park. As of this past June construction has begun on 14 of the programs.
