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Making a world-class center: Qingdao timeline

By Wei Zhihui | China Daily | Updated: 2008-03-05 07:30

The following is a timeline of the preparation for the Olympic sailing races in Qingdao, Shandong province:

1999: Qingdao launches its bid for the 2008 Olympic Sailing competition.

 Making a world-class center: Qingdao timeline

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July 13, 2001: Beijing is awarded the 2008 Olympic Games. Qingdao beat out other coastal cities, including Dalian, to seal the races.

June 11, 2003: Approved by the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad, the Qingdao Sailing Committee is formed.

May 25, 2004: The Qingdao International Sailing Center breaks ground.

December 28, 2005: Ahead of schedule, Qingdao completes its executive and management centers for the sailing center.

Jan 23, 2006: Sailor Guo Chuan, a native of Qingdao, becomes the first Chinese to participate in an around the world race yacht race, crewing on the leg from Singapore to Qingdao.

April 3-8, 2006: Qingdao has a successful debut in the sailing world as a stopover on the around the world race.

August 18-31, 2006: The 2006 International Sailing Regatta is held at the Olympics Sailing Center of Qingdao.

August 9-24, 2007: The 2007 Qingdao International Sailing Regatta, a second Olympics test event, is successfully hosted in Qingdao.

January, 2008: The Olympics Village - the final big project in Qingdao's preparations - is completed.

(China Daily 03/05/2008 page24)

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