China prepares to host Asian Games 2022

By Masood Sattar Khan
(Pakistan News & Features Services)

After fighting successfully the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the preparations in China have resumed for building various projects to help facilitates for participants of the Asian Games 2022. 

In this regards, Zhejiang’s provincial government will build China’s first expressway that incorporates support for autonomous vehicles, People’s Daily, reported quoting local authorities.

The eastern Chinese province plans to complete the project ahead of the 2022 Asian Games. China has already hosted a couple of editions of the Asian Games. 

They first organized it at Beijing in 1990 and then at Guangzhou in 2010. Beijing was also the venue of the Olympic Games in 2008. 

The 2022 Asian Games, also known as XIX ASIAD, will be a multi-sport event to be staged in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, from September 10 to 25, 2022. 

The Games will also include athletes from Oceania for the first time after the approval from Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) to compete in sports which will serve as qualifiers for the 2024 Olympics, including volleyball, beach volleyball, basketball, football and fencing.