2008 Olympic Games.

Four-Star 

• Jade Palace Hotel
• Grand Hyatt Beijing at Oriental Plaza
• Beijing Hotel
• Grand Hotel Beijing
• Beijing International Hotel
• St. Regis Hotel, Beijng
• Crowne Plaza Beijing
• Beijing Kerry Centre Hotel Co., Ltd.
• Beijing Marriott Hotel West
• Beijing Kingwing Hot Spring Int’l Hotel
• Beijing Hotel Kunlun
• Beijing Century Golden Resources Hotel
• Hotel New Otani Chang Fu Gong
• Crowne Plaza Park View Wuzhou Beijing
• Hilton Beijing
• The Great Wall Sheraton Hotel Beijing
• Hotel Nikko New Century Beijing
• Beijing Asia Hotel
• Kempinski Hotel Beijing Lufthansa Center
• Days Hotel & Suites Beijing
• Swissôtel Beijing
• Presidential Plaza Beijing
• Prime Hotel
• Beijing Xinyuan Hotel
• Jingguang New World hotel
• Tianlun Dynasty Hotel
• The Peninsula Palace Beijing
• XiYuan Hotel
• Shangri-La Hotel
• Zhaolong Hotel
• China World Hotel
• The Regent Hotel

Four-Star

• Poly Plaza
• The North-Garden Hotel
• Novotel Peace Beijing
• Hotel Jianguo
• Courtyard By Marriott Beijing
• Beijing Continental Grand Hotel
• Grand Metropark
• Beijing Yanshan Hotel
• Beijing Friendship Hotel
• Holiday Inn Chang An West Beijing
• Diaoyutai Hotel
• Oriental Garden Hotel
• FuJian Hotel
• Beijing Guangzhou Hotel
• Renaissance Beijing Hotel
• Internatioal Convention Hotel
• Traders Hotel
• Jianguo Garden Hotel
• Beijing Henan Plaza Hotel
• China Resources Hotel
• Radisson SAS Hotel
• Holiday Inn Downtown Beijing
• Beijing Jinglun Hotel
• Gloria Plaza Hotel Beiing
• Holiday Inn Lido Beijing
• Beijing Landmark Hotel
• Beijing Minzu Hotel
• Celebrity Internaional Grand Hotel
• Rosedale Hotel & Suites Beijing
• Scitech Hotel
• Schengen Internation Hotel
• ShenZhen Hotel
• Best Western Premier Beijing
• Capital Hotel
• Beijing Foreign Experts Building
• Wangfujing Grand Hotel
• Beijing Capital Xindadu Hotel
• News Plaza Hotel
• Yuyang HOTEL
• China People’s Palace
• CTS Hotel
• Central Garden Hotel
• Unisplendour International Center
• Park Plaza Beijing Wangfujing
• Kuntai Royal Hotel

Three-star

• Beiyuan Hotel
• Beijing Haite Hotel
• Beijing Hongxiang Hotel
• Beijing Huabei Hotel
• Beijing Jilin Mansion
• Longwise Hotel
• Shengli Hotel Beijing
• Beijing Tarim Petroleum Hotel
• Beijing Grand Hotel
• Beijing Shouti Hotel
• Shunyi Hotel
• Suyuan Jinjiang Hotel
• Beijing Taishan Hotel
• Beijing Tu Ha Petroleum Hotel
• Beijing Tibet Hotel
• Xi Jiao Hotel
• Novotel Xinqiao Beijing
• Beijing Eastern Garden International Conference Center
• Beijing Grand Jiangnan Garden Hotel
• 21st Century Hotel
• Gong Ti Sports Inn
• HuBei Hotel
• HuaDu Hotel
• Jingmin Hotel
• Jundu Tourist Villa
• Catic Plaza Hotel
• Media Center
• Mengxi Hotel
• Beijing Taiwan Hotel
• Tianlun Songhe Hotel
• WanShang Garden Hotel
• YanXiang Hotel Beijing
• BTG hotels & resorts Yong An hotel
• Beijing Zi Yu Hotel
• Beihang Weishi Tower

An anti-terrorist special team consisting of engineers and experts will shoulder the security work for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, according to the General Staff Headquarters of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA).    The team from the PLA’s engineering troop will be responsible for security checks, emergency rescues and anti-terrorist technology applications during the August Olympiad.

    In addition, 10 engineering experts in anti-terrorist technology have been selected to provide technical support and information for the security troops during the Games.

    Olympic security has been the focus of the Chinese army’s daily drills. Among them are activities preventing guns and explosives from nearing important targets, searching for and defusing explosives, rescuing victims stranded in damaged buildings and leading emergency evacuations, among others.

    World record holder and Olympic gold medalist Liu Xiang won here Saturday evening the men’s 110 meters hurdles gold at the China Athletics Open.

    The 24-year-old Liu finished the race at 13.18 seconds at the test event for the Beijing Olympics.

    Liu’s show in the National Stadium, nicknamed as the Bird’s Nest, attracted at least 60,000 spectators.

    ”I hope the Bird’s Nest will be a place of my second dream,” Liu said after the race, indicating that he is aspiring for his second Olympic gold.

    ”I took it seriously although it was just a test event,” Liu said. “I am going to prepare the two consecutive races soon in the United States.”

    ”I love the noise of crowds in the stadium and even more noise at the Olympics would make me more excited,” the star runner said.

    Liu’s teammates Shi Dongpeng, China’s another hopeful for the Olympic men’s 110 meters hurdles final, finished the second place at 13.29.

   Qingdao, also known as Tsingdao, is a coast city 550-kilometer southeast of Beijing with an urban population of 2.7 million. Possessing China’s fifth largest port, Qingdao hosts an array of China’s big brands like Hair and Qingdao Beer.    Qingdao was declared Beijing’s partner city to bid for the 2008 Olympic Games in July of 2000, a year before Beijing’s overwhelming victory in Moscow on July 13, 2001.

    In 2008, eleven of the Games’ all together 302 golds will be decided from the sailing competitions in Qingdao.

    Local government of Qingdao moved a shipyard out from downtown seaside and started the counstruction of the Qingdao International Sailing Centre in April, 2004.

    The Centre covers a total area of 45 hectares (450,000 sq.m.), two thirds of which will be utilised for the competitions.

    The whole project is comprised of the Land Area, and the Harbor and the Off-shore Section. The projects on land will provide the administration and competition management centre, the athletes’ centre, the press centre, the logistic and functional centre, and other affiliated facilities as well.

    The Harbor and Off-Shore parts will focus on the engineering of the major and secondary breakwater, an embankment, a quay featuring the Olympic Memorial Wall, and the renovation of the shore wall.
    
    The quay, the secondary breakwater, and the embankment will enclose an area of 15.5 hectares (155,000 sq.m.) while the major breakwater, together with the embankment, will occupy 7.5 hectares (75,000 sq.m.).

    Additional overlay and facilities will also be placed for temporary use of the Games. A removable surveying shed and a pontoon, for instance, will be set up separately on the embankment and the western quay to facilitate observations and transportation.

   Situated at China’s southeastern coastline, Hong Kong has a population of 6.9 million and a total area of 1,103 square kilometers, which consists of the Hong Kong Island, the Kowloon Peninsula, the New Territories and 262 outlying islands.    Hong Kong features a sub-tropical climate. Temperatures can drop below 10 degrees Celsius in winter and exceed 31 degrees Celsius in summer.

    The Equestrian events

    All circles in Hong Kong were delighted at July 8’s announcement that Hong Kong would co-host the equestrian events of the 2008 Olympic Games. Local authorities had pledged to provide the utmost guarantee of facilities for the success of the Olympic equestrian events.

    The Equestrian events will be held at the Hong Kong Sports Institute and Penfold Park in Shatin, Beas River Country Club and part of the adjacent Hong Kong Golf Club.

    Hong Kong has in place world-class equine care facilities and medical services for horses, and a group of professionals in the Equestrian events. Hong Kong also has recognized quarantine protocol arrangements with many countries. Besides, Hong Kong’s Equestrian sport for riders with disabilities is well-established and takes a leading position in Asia.