Vice Beijing Mayor: All Olympic Venues, Except Landmark Bird's Nest, To Be Accomplished This Year

Construction of the National Stadium where the opening ceremony of the 2008 Olympics is to be held will be accomplished next March and all the other venues are to be completed by the end of this year, an organizing committee official said Friday.

So far, 27 of the 37 venues have already been completed, Liu Jingmin, vice mayor of Beijing and executive deputy chairman of the Beijing Organizing Committee for the 2008 Olympic Games (BOCOG) said on the sidelines of the 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.

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