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Beijing has formally submitted its bidding report as host for the 2022 Winter Olympics to the International Olympic Committee in Lausanne, Switzerland, on Jan. 6, Tuesday.
China's Olympic Winter Games Bid Committee left the country on Monday to be in time for the submission of the bidding report.
The team was headed by Chinese Olympic Committee president Liu Peng and Beijing 2022 Bid Committee president and mayor of Beijing Wang Anshun, who both presented the report to the IOC panel.
In preparation for the crucial presentation, the COC formed a draft group in May 2014 that will cover four major aspects of the endeavor: the Chinese division, the guarantee group, the photograph and technology division, and the English/French translation group.
The report addresses all questions included in the IOC's bidding outline, which consists 192 questions designated into 14 topics. The application covers topics such as the bidding concept, venues, guarantees, event organizing and media operation.
To increase the chance of winning the bid, Beijing has assured 154 guarantees from related governments, hotels and venues.
According to the draft group, the current bid differs fom the 2008 Summer Olympics bid in that it only has around 300 pages compared to the last bid's over 500 pages.
Deputy secretary-general of the 2022 Olympics Bid Committee Xu Da said that understanding the questions in French is one of the hurdles that had to be overcome.
"The most difficult aspect is how to fully understand the IOC questions, what we need to answer and what answers the IOC expects receive. After tranlsation, it still needs further editing, so it took us a long time to read the original material," the official said.
Once the bid's paperwork has been assessed, the IOC will send an evaluation team to China in March before it announces on July 31 whether Beijing or Almaty, Kazakhstan, will host the upcoming games.
If Beijing won the bid, it would co-host the games with Zhangjiakou in Hebei Province. In such case, Beijing would hold ice sports, while Zhangjiakou would hold snow events.
