Top official pledges oversight of Olympic Games projects
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CHINA will carry out social stability risk assessments before approving major projects for the 2022 Winter Olympics, a senior official said yesterday, pledging an open and transparent program of construction.
Beijing, along with the nearby city of Zhangjiakou, won the right to host the 2022 Games last year. The other city bidding to host the event was Kazakhstan’s Almaty, after other prospective cities dropped out citing costs and other worries.
Writing in the Study Times, Zhangjiakou’s top official, Party chief Hou Liang, repeated the government’s pledge to hold a clean and open Games.
There would be full oversight for every penny spent on the Olympics, and clear “red lines” drawn on financial management, Hou wrote in the newspaper, which is published by the Central Party School, which trains rising officials.
“Carry out social stability risk assessments before approval for large-scale construction projects, broadly accept oversight from society,” Hou wrote, without giving details.
The 2008 Beijing Olympics were overshadowed by allegations from rights groups of large-scale forced evictions, claims angrily dismissed at the time by the government and organizers.
It has not been smooth sailing for China’s Winter Games plans either. The run-up to China’s bid last year was overshadowed by corruption investigations into a deputy sports minister who had sat on China’s Olympics committee and the Party boss of north China’s Hebei Province, where Zhangjiakou is located, who had attended meetings of the bid committee.
Hou pledged strict compliance with discipline rules, so that “respect for discipline and upholding the law is always stretched tight as a bowstring.”
Hou also said it would be a green Olympics and tough rules would be enforced to ensure clean air.
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