Cao Dongxiang, director of the Major Event Division of the Beijing police, said at an international police and science forum in Hangzhou China that the Chinese police are taking additional thoughtful and comprehensive measures to ensure the security of the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympic Games.
Cao pointed out that possible scenarios require more scientific and technological input into security facilities to improve the level of security management.
He said that possible challenges for security may come from wars in some areas in the world, threats from terrorists, and possible conflicts caused by differences among nations, cultures, history and ideologies.
Also discussed was the traffic problem in Beijing. Cao said that there will be three to four million power-driven vehicles in Beijing by 2008.
Meanwhile, Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom urged Beijing 2008 organizers to commemorate the Israeli athletes murdered during the 1972 Munich Games.
Shalom told reporters that he asked Beijing Vice Mayor Liu Jingmin, who is also vice chairman of Beijing 2008, to mention the massacre against the Israeli athletes and to do it for the first time to commemorate them at the Olympic Games.
AFP reports that Shalom also pitched the participation of Israeli companies in the construction and preparations of the 2008 Games, citing the $250 million in contracts, which Israeli enterprises won for the Athens Games.
