Beijing Olympic Green to be Beijing New Landmark
Since the opening of Beijing Olympic Green, the park has accepted over 60 millions visitors from all over the world. Therefore, the park is expected to become one of the new landmarks of Beijing city after Forbidden City and Great Wall of China. According to the statistic of Olympic Green Cultural Development Forum, the huge daily flow of visitors to Beijing Olympic Green has ensured the park to become one of the most significant Beijing landmarks for Olympic Heritages.
According to Chen Gang, the Secretary of Chaoyang District, the Beijing Olympic Green has accepted over 40 millions of visitors for year 2009. In other word, the daily flow of the park may reach 130 thousands of people per day. As a result, the park has turned out to be the area throughout Beijing which possesses the fastest economical growth. Throughout the major revenue of main venue of Olympic Games like Bird’s Nest and Water Cube, the revenue from entrance visiting ticket has made up approximately 700 percent of the total. Besides that, the income from performances as well as the sales souvenirs made up a part as well.
Beijing Olympic Green which covers an area of 11.57 square kilometers has included the area of Bird’s Nest (Beijing National Stadium) and Water Cube (National Aquatics Center) in between. According to the spokesperson of Beijing Chaoyang Municipal Bureau, strong emphasis will be placed for the development of Beijing Olympic Green in order to make it a perfect destination for sportsmanship, cultural as well as recreational destination for the locals. Since the end of Beijing Olympic Games in August 2008, Beijing Olympic Green especially the Water Cubes and Bird’s Nest has undergone quite a number of huge renovation projects to fully utilize the space and facilities of the venues.
There are suggestions to develop the Beijing Olympic Games Heritage properties as a brand new tourism routes in Beijing. There are many visitors who might be interested of visiting such places including the Bird’s Nest, Water Cube as well as the Olympic Park. Therefore, it is advisable to combine Beijing historical attractions like Forbidden City together with the new landmarks of Beijing in order to offer a better Beijing tour package for visitors. A new tourist traveling route has been suggested in which starting from Forbidden City and expands to the north towards Beijing Olympic Green and later spread to the north western part towards Badaling Great Wall; then towards the Shunyi Olympic Water Sports Park on east northern part. The most significant Beijing Olympic venues as well as the most representative Beijing historical landmarks have all included within this Beijing package tour. It is really worth for it if you plan to go round Beijing visiting both historical and new landmarks.
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