China says Asian Games venues have been completed

All 56 competition venues for the Asian Games and Asian Para Games, including for e-sports which makes its debut in Asian games, have been completed

Venues for the Asian Games have been completed six months before the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou hosts athletes from across the region, organisers said Friday.

The competition, the 19th edition of the fiercely contested regional sporting event, is still on despite China battling with its worst Covid-19 outbreak since the pandemic began.

Organisers say a virus control plan that “learns from the successful experience” of the Beijing Winter Olympics held in February, will be published in the coming weeks.

All 56 competition venues for the Asian Games and Asian Para Games have been completed, organisers added in a statement.

“Functional checks for the events have been finished,” the statement said, adding several Games villages and over 30 training venues have also been built.

“We’re now just making a few final adjustments and improvements to the facilities,” Lu Chunjiang, an official in charge of operations at Hangzhou Olympic Sports Centre, told state broadcaster CCTV.