Liu Jingmin, Vice-Mayor of Beijing and Executive Vice-President of the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad (BOCOG) toured the construction site of the Olympic Village on Wednesday.

 

 

A view of a sample athlete apartment.

 

He visited the athletes' apartments, the parks in the northern part of the Village and other places.

 

According to information supplied by the constructor, the shell of the 42 buildings of the Olympic Village was finished at the end of 2006 and facade of two sample buildings of two sample buildings recently been completed. The sample suite has a useful floor area of 137.66 square meters.

 

 

The Olympic Village under construction.

 

By December 23, 2006, 2,702 trees and 6,581 shrubs had been planted in the northern part of the Village.

 

(BOCOG March 2, 2007)