Hangzhou: Following the release of the mascots for the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games last week, progress on stadium and arena construction has also been updated. Organizers have revealed on Friday that 42 out of 58 venues should be completed this year.
A total of 53 competition venues, five Asian Games villages and 31 training venues are needed for the 2022 Asian Games. 40 of them were already under construction in 2019 and construction on the remaining competition venues will begin this year, reported a leading news agency.
"Our target is to complete the construction of 42 competition venues and auxiliary facilities by the end of this year, which accounts for more than 85 percent of the total construction work," said the organising committee.
With "smart" a key theme of the 2022 Games, a slew of high technologies will be highlighted in the construction work by taking advantage of Hangzhou's strengths in intelligent systems.
All competition venues are expected to be completed by March 2021.
The 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games will be held from September 10 to 25, 2022. Being a world-renowned tourist city which hails its rich historical heritage and home-grown technology company like Alibaba, Hangzhou will be the third Chinese city to host the Asian Games, after Beijing in 1990 and Guangzhou in 2010.
