The Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad , or BOCOG , also known as the Beijing Organizing Committee, was an informal name for the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad . It was also the organizing committee for the Games of the XIII Paralympiad . The President of BOCOG was Liu Qi ( simplified Chinese : 刘淇 ; traditional Chinese : 劉淇 ; pinyin : Liú Qí ), the then CPC secretary of Beijing Municipality.
6-1066: On December 13, 2001, the Organizing Committee for the XXIX Olympiad was officially constituted, initially headquartered at the Xinqiao Hotel in Chongwenmen , which previously housed the Beijing Olympic bidding committee. On September 28, 2002, the office was transferred to the Qinglan Building in Dongsishitiao , and on January 19, 2006, it was moved to the Beijing Olympic Mansion on the North Fourth Ring Road. On January 28, 2008, BOCOG took control of
12-654: A diagonal street, going northwest to the Beijing railway station . Chongwenmen is a transport node in Beijing. Chongwenmen Station is an interchange station on Lines 2 and 5 of the Beijing Subway . Chongwen District , an administrative division of the city from 1952 to 2010 and now folded into Dongcheng District, was named after Chongwenmen. During the Yuan dynasty , the gate was called Wenmingmen (文明門). Because
18-406: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Chongwenmen Chongwenmen ( Chinese : 崇 文 門 ; pinyin : Chóngwénmén ; Manchu : ᡧᡠ ᠪᡝ ᠸᡝᠰᡳᡥᡠᠯᡝᡵᡝ ᡩᡠᡴᠠ ; Möllendorff : šu be wesihulere duka) was a gate that was part of Beijing's city wall in what is now Dongcheng District . The gate stood in the southeastern part of Beijing's inner city, immediately south of
24-653: The Water Cube . On August 22, 2009, BOCOG is officially dissolved. Its official website is now used by the Beijing Olympic City Development Association. The Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games (BOCOG) has set up a total of 22 functional departments, which were later increased to more than thirty as the preparatory work for the Olympic Games was in full swing. This 2008 Olympics -related article
30-420: The old Beijing Legation Quarter . In the 1960s, the gate and much of the wall was torn down to make room for Beijing's second ring road . Today, Chongwenmen is marked by the intersection of Chongwenmen Nei (Inner) and Chongwenmen Wai (Outer) Street, which run north–south through the former gate, Chongwenmen East and Chongwenmen West Street, which run east–west where the wall stood, and Beijing Station West Street,
36-557: The residence of the Mongol prince Hada was located close by, the gate was also popularly known as Hadamen (traditional 哈達門, simplified 哈大門) or Hademen (traditional 哈德門, simplified 哈德门). The name Hademen survived well into the twentieth century, and was even the name of a popular cigarette brand. The Hademen Hotel now overlooks where the gate once stood. To the east of Chongwenmen, the Ming City Wall Relics Park has
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