Co-host Beijing 2022 organizing committee attended the meeting online at their Shougang headquarters in Beijing. Ten departments of the organizers reported updates on matters of venue and infrastructure construction, media operation; accommodation; accreditation; transport and so on, and discuss any requirements that the RHBs may have with regards to logistics, security, financial and others.

"The preparations are on track and very well advanced. You would see how much the development of the venue, the organizational structure and all the logistical things have been done. It's an important meeting which for many of you signals the start of the preparations for the Games," OBS CEO Yiannis Exarchos said. "Also please allow me on behalf of all of you to express our solidarity to Beijing 2022 and their government [during the novel coronavirus outbreak]."

Zhang Jiandong, Vice Mayor of Beijing and Executive Vice President of Beijing 2022 expressed appreciation to involved parties for their understandings that the meeting was relocated to Madrid due to the COVID-19 outbreak.

"China has been taking effective measures to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus and won praises from the World Health Organization and many countries [and regions]. We are confident that we have the capability and will overcome the epidemic," he continued.

"We will try our best to push forward the preparations for Beijing 2022 amid the fight against the virus and make sure the preparatory works are done in time and up to standard," he vowed.

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