The Olympic Green is an Olympic Park in Beijing, China constructed for the 2008 Summer Olympics.
Beijing Olympic Park is a big oxygen bar of the city. It i s a leisure park with scenery similar to classical Chinese landscape painting.
Beijing Olympic Park lies in the north of the central axis of the city. Covering an area of 1215 hectares, with 760 hectares set aside for woods and grass, 405 hectares for the International Exhibition and Sports Center and 50 hectares for the Chinese Nationalities Museum, Beijing Olympic Park is larger that the total of the Summer Palace and the Yuanmingyuan Park.
Beijing Olympic Park is the central area for holding Olympic sports. It contains 44% of the tatal 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, a reporters’ village with a floor space of 400,000 square meters, as well as a news center an international broadcasting and TV center. |
