China News Service, February 10. In response to foreign media's claims that "Shougang Ski Jumping Platform is a nuclear power plant", Zhao Weidong, spokesman for the Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee, responded today that this is simply a fantasy and absurd.
"I have also noticed that enthusiastic netizens in many countries have conducted sufficient science in the (social media) comment area, and we are also grateful for this."
Data map: Beijing Shougang Ski Jumping Platform.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Tomita
Zhao Weidong said that the Shougang Ski Jumping Platform is located in the industrial park of Shougang, which is the first competition venue in the history of the Winter Olympics that is directly combined with the reuse of industrial heritage. The upgrade is also the world's first permanently reserved and used ski jump."
"The big platform of the Winter Olympics in the past will be dismantled after the competition, but this big platform will stay forever." Zhao Weidong said that the office of the Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee is located in the Shougang Park, which is a short distance from the Shougang platform. Very recently, "My colleagues and I have been working here every day in recent years. President Bach, President of the International Olympic Committee, has also visited the Shougang Park. He has repeatedly used the Shougang Park as the Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee to practice sustainable development. A model of development and frugality, called an amazing example of urban planning and urbanism."
Zhao Weidong also said that he also noticed some Western media in the past two days, "reporting the story of our transformation of Shougang Park from an industrial park into a cultural, sports and leisure park, and gave full affirmation."