BEIJING, Feb 20 (APP):The construction work at the athletes’ village for the Military World Games, schedule to be held in October 2019 in the Chinese city of Wuhan, continued during the Spring Festival holidays aimed at completing the task by June next year.
“Most of the 2,000-plus workers here have gone home for the Spring Festival holidays from February 15 to February 21. About 200 of them stay and go on working because we are a bit behind schedule due to the strong snowfalls that hit the city in January”, according to Yin Tianming, a project manager involved with the project.
“The construction of the village began in April last year and will wrap up in June 2019,” he added.
The athletes’ village, which is worth 4.5 billion yuan (714 million US dollars) and built to meet the standards of the Beijing Olympic Village, is comprised of 30 high-rise buildings up to 32 stories tall with a total of 2,226 apartments.
The village will accommodate approximately 11,000 people from more than 100 countries and regions during the 7th Military World Games, a multi-sport event for military sportspeople.
The village, situated by a scenic lake on the southern outskirts of Wuhan, capital city of central China’s Hubei Province will be sold as high-end condos after the Games.
The Military World Games, first held in Rome in 1995, is organized every four years by the International Military Sports Council.
The games, the top sports gala for military personnel, comprises 329 competition events of 27 categories including naval pentathlon, aeronautical pentathlon, basketball and swimming are expected to attract around 8000 participants from more than 100 countries and regions.