By APP
Beijing : China has formed a top-level leading group for the preparations of the Beijing Olympic Games headed by Xi Jinping, a senior leader of the Communist Party of China (CPC), said an official with the Games’ organizing committee on Wednesday.
Xi is a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee.
The two deputy heads of the group are Zhou Yongkang, also in the nine-member Political Bureau Standing Committee of the CPC Central Committee, and Liu Qi, Beijing’s Communist Party chief and president of the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad (BOCOG), said Beijing Vice Mayor Liu Jingmin, also executive vice president of the BOCOG.
The establishment of the group has given effective support to the preparation work in the run-up to the Beijing Games, Liu said at a press conference during the annual full session of China’s top political advisory body.