2001July 12 The 2nd plenary session of the International Olympic Committee was grandly opened in the famous Grand Theatre in Moscow. . Russian Deputy Prime Minister Li Lanqing of the State Council, People's Republic of China (PRC), who came to attend this plenary session, also attended the opening ceremony. At noon that day, the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games Bid Committee held a press conference in the press center of Moscow Slavic Hotel. The delegation of Beijing Olympic bid committee ranked fourth after Osaka, Paris and Toronto in the previous drawing order.
2001July 10, the State Council's Deputy Prime Minister Li Lanqing left Beijing for Moscow by plane to attend the 1 12 plenary session of the International Olympic Committee in Moscow on behalf of the China government. Li Lanqing was accompanied by Vice Foreign Minister Zhang Deguang and Deputy Secretary-General Xu of the State Council.
On July 3rd, 20001,Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Zhang Qiyue announced in Beijing that Li Lanqing, Vice Premier of the State Council, will represent the China government at the112nd plenary session of the International Olympic Committee held in Moscow from July to June 14.
On June 30th, 20001year, the activity of "Beijing Olympic Games, Yellow Lights-Cross-Strait Long-distance Running" took half a month to reach its destination-Beijing. The activity started from Taipei on June 16 and passed through Kaohsiung, Shenzhen, Ningbo, Hangzhou, Shanghai, Wuxi, Nanjing and Qingdao. Wherever they went, they received positive responses from local sports departments and citizens, and tens of thousands of people participated in long-distance running activities around the country. Zhang Faqiang, vice chairman of the All-China Sports Federation and the Chinese Olympic Committee, and Liu Jingmin, vice mayor of Beijing and executive vice chairman of the Beijing Olympic bid committee, fired guns for long-distance running. Under the leadership of Deng Yaping, ambassador of the Olympic bid committee, and Zou, a famous track and field athlete, the long-distance running reached a climax.
On February 24th, 20001year, the evaluation team of the International Olympic Committee conducted the fourth and last day of inspection in Beijing. In the morning, the Beijing Olympic bid committee put forward five themes to the evaluation team: technology, medical care, safety, communication and media, Olympism and culture. In the afternoon, the assessment team was divided into two groups and visited Chaoyang Park, Beihang University, Beijing Telecom Company, CCTV, Olympic Sports Center and China Millennium Monument. In the afternoon, the IOC evaluation team held a press conference in Beijing. President Verbruggen and all members of the assessment team attended, and President Verbruggen answered questions from Chinese and foreign journalists.
On June 6th, 2000, Beijing 2008 Olympic Games Bid Committee submitted its application report to the International Olympic Committee in Lausanne.
On June 6th, 2000, Wang Wei, Secretary General of Beijing Olympic Bid Committee, went to ioc headquarters to submit the answers to 22 questions that the bidding city must answer.
On June 6th, 2000, Mayor Liu Qi presided over the 23rd executive meeting of the municipal government to study Beijing's bid for the 2008 Olympic Games. Liu Qi stressed, give full play to the strength of the city, mobilize all forces, and comprehensively promote the Olympic bid.
At the beginning of June 2000, the Beijing Olympic bid committee promulgated the Interim Provisions on the Administration of the Use of the Name and Emblem of the Beijing 2008 Olympic bid committee.
On June 1 day, 2000, the award ceremony of Children's Imaginative Painting Competition was held in Beijing VIP Building. Wang Yinan from Beijing Primary School and Zhao Yue from Chengdu Youth Palace won the grand prize in the competition held in China. They will go to Australia to watch the Sydney Olympic Games on behalf of China children.
On May 27th, 2000, a countdown card was set up in Gongmei Building, Wangfujing, which was the first countdown card set up spontaneously by Beijing residents.
May 2000
Liu Qi, Chairman of Beijing Olympic Bid Committee, published an article entitled "Steadily Advancing Beijing's Olympic Bid" in Guangming Daily.
On May 18, 2000, the leading group of the Olympic bid committee held the fourth enlarged meeting to listen to the preliminary work report of the Olympic bid committee. Jia Qinglin, secretary of the Municipal Party Committee, pointed out that Premier Zhu Rongji's speech on behalf of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council in support of Beijing's bid for the 2008 Olympic Games expressed the common aspiration of Beijing and the people of the whole country, which will further stimulate the enthusiasm of the whole society for supporting Beijing's bid for the Olympic Games. He stressed that it is necessary to solidly promote the bidding work.