Ding Jianming, deputy director of Beijing's Major Projects Office, introduced that the Beijing Winter Paralympics involves 3 competition venues and 20 non-competition venues in Beijing, and that the construction of venue accessibility facilities and venues is being carried out simultaneously.
Facilities construction is complete. The National Alpine Ski Center has an altitude difference of about 900 meters, and four platforms are built according to the mountain. The platforms are connected by barrier-free elevators and road systems to reduce the inconvenience of mountain buildings for people with disabilities; the National Swimming Center's barrier-free bathrooms use electric doors and mirrors are designed with tilted angles.
Intelligent and convenient to use. The Beijing Winter Olympic Village has developed a barrier-free intelligent service platform to provide barrier-free route navigation for people with disabilities through cell phone apps during the Beijing Winter Olympic Games. In the guest rooms, the lamps, air conditioners and curtains can be controlled by App or intelligent control panel, and the furniture has been scientifically planned to be practical and useful.
The National Stadium, National Aquatics Center, and the National Center for the Performing Arts (NCPA) are the most popular venues in China. The National Stadium and the National Aquatics Center leave the best seats for disabled spectators; the floor of the National Disabled Ice Sports Competition and Training Center is smooth, and all the corners of the walls have been smoothed with arcs, and the bathroom toilet adopts a double-drainage design with two buttons on the wall, which is convenient for the upper-limb and lower-limb people with disabilities to use.
Ding Jianming said, the Beijing Winter Olympics will create a "barrier-free Winter Olympics", well-designed and the application of advanced technology venue accessibility will provide people with disabilities to participate in the competition, watching the competition environment, but also to promote the level of management of the city's barrier-free facilities, the whole society to help people with disabilities and love disability awareness to further improve.