As of January 1, 2007, the Beijing Olympic Press Center will provide "one stop service" for journalists and will hold the regular press conference every Wednesday, according to information from the center.

The center was created on November 1, 2004 jointly by the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad (BOCOG) and the Beijing Municipal Information Office soon after the Athens Olympic Games to receive overseas journalists who intended to come to Beijing to cover the preparatory work for the Beijing Games. It has become a key window for BOCOG and the Beijing Municipality to release information and a bridge linking Beijing with news media at home and abroad.

With the Beijing Olympics approaching, there are more requests from overseas media to cover Beijing and the Olympics. To better serve the media, the center decided to hold the regular press conference on every Wednesday afternoon, in addition to unscheduled news briefings with an aim to update the press on Beijing's economic development and progress in Olympic preparations.

The center will also provide a "one-stop service" and exercise a 24-hour work schedule to handle news coverage matters for Chinese and overseas journalists. Those journalists making temporary trips to Beijing will have board and lodging assistance from the center.

At the same time, the center will continue to give information related to the preparatory work, hand out publicity materials and organize on-spot news coverage.

The center said in 2006 it held a total of 36 press conferences with a total attendance of over 3,000, received 898 overseas journalists, arranged 189 interviews and organized 28 press tours for overseas media. In a word, the center has become a major channel for news media at home and abroad to obtain Olympic-related information.