CCTV News:This time, the International Olympic Committee has set the venue of the PyeongChang Winter Olympics summary meeting at the headquarters of the Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee in Shougang Park, which is of very special significance. On August 26th last year, when IOC President Bach came to Beijing to inspect the preparations for the Beijing Winter Olympics, he spoke highly of the Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee’s headquarters in Shougang, an old factory that had stopped production, and expressed his admiration on many occasions. It can be said that Shougang, a former steel city, has an indissoluble bond with the Beijing Olympics.

Shougang’s former clean coal workshop has been transformed into a training base.

Once the clean coal workshop of Shougang, it will soon become the training base for the national curling team, short track speed skating team, figure skating team and ice hockey team.

Xu Yan, head of Shougang Group’s Winter Olympics Stadium Reconstruction Project: We used the original old frame structure as the supporting system, and then this was based on industry, our industrial characteristics, and combined with the current standards of international sports events, to build such a modern stadium with industrial heritage style and international training competition standards.

Internal scene of training base

At present, the curling hall is already undergoing indoor fine decoration and will be completed by the end of June at the earliest. Short track speed skating, figure skating and ice hockey training halls will also be completed and put into use this year.

Walking in Shougang’s old factory, you can feel the winter Olympics here everywhere. These four 70-meter-high cooling towers will be transformed into a single-board platform competition venue, and the cooling towers will also be preserved as a unique stadium landscape.

Four 70-meter-high cooling towers will be transformed into competition venues for single-board platform.

Xu Yan, head of Shougang Group’s Winter Olympic Stadium Reconstruction Project: Our ski jumping platform is the world’s first permanently reserved venue after the Olympic Games. We will be the official venue for providing training and competition for the national team in the later period, and then we will open this venue to the general public to provide a very good place for sports and leisure.

　In Beijing’s new general regulations, the description of the new Shougang is "the demonstration zone of green transformation and upgrading of traditional industries, the innovative highland of high-end industries in the west of Beijing, and the creative base of post-industrial culture and sports", and it is necessary to strengthen the protection and utilization of industrial remains, focus on building the northern area of Shougang’s old industrial zone, and build a national sports industry demonstration zone. The goal and path of building a new landmark of urban rejuvenation in the new Shougang area are becoming increasingly clear.

Gui Lin, deputy director of the Master Planning Department of the Planning and Development Department of the Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee: Mr. Bach has visited this site and thought it was a brilliant stroke in the history of the Olympic Movement. Then I hope that more Olympic venues can be combined with urban development so well, which can really promote regional revival and development.