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Security ups Beijing Olympic cost to US$2 billion
22 October 2007
The appreciation of Yuan and the heightened tasks in security management have driven up Beijing's Olympics budget from US$1.6 billion to US$2 billion, Liu Jingmin, executive vice president of the Beijing Organizing Committee for the 2008 Olympic Games, said in Beijing on Friday
The figure still stays short of the 2.4-billion-USD budget for the Athens Olympics in 2004, he noted, adding that the committee would make a second revision of the budget in line with needs.
Xinhua News Agency
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