Beijing will apply a low price policy to the ticket sales for
the 2008 Olympic Games and 14% of the cheapest tickets will be
reserved for the country's youth, The Beijing News
reports.
Liu Jingmin, the Executive Vice President of the Beijing
Organizing Committee for the 2008 Olympic Games (BOCOG) and Vice
Mayor of Beijing, announced the policy at a meeting on
Saturday.
The Vice Mayor said they will aside the tickets for the
country's youth because they are the future, they need to learn
about the world and make friends with people from other countries
and ethnicities.
Meanwhile, Liu Jingmin also confirmed that at least half of the
Olympic opening and closing ceremony tickets will be sold to
ordinary people.
Starting from this year, organizers will gather information from
China and other countries to determine the demand for tickets for
each event and adjust the number of tickets accordingly.
(CRI January 29, 2007)