Beijing promises a more open Internet environment if it wins the 2022 Winter Olympics

March 26 News, according to Reuters, the Beijing Winter Olympic Games, Deputy secretary general, news propaganda minister, spokesman Wang Wednesday, if Beijing successfully won the 2022 Winter Olympic Games, will be promised to all contestants and foreign visitors a more open Internet environment.

For reasons of social stability and national security, the Chinese government has filtered out a number of social media and services abroad through so-called "firewall" technologies, including Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook and Google's well-known websites. The practice was difficult for foreign journalists to adapt to during the 2008 Beijing Olympics, although authorities said they had provided a more liberal environment.
Wang, a spokesman for the Beijing Winter Olympic Committee, stressed that China is also an open country and is committed to creating an open Internet environment.
"Everyone is always talking about Facebook and Twitter, but in fact people around me don't like to use them," he said. "We have micro-blogs and micro-letters, and 650 million of Chinese netizens are always free to use these tools to exchange and access information," Wang, when asked whether foreign visitors can use the Internet without restrictions in 2022. ”
"Of course, 2022 will be more open than 2008." "This means that foreign tourists, the media and athletes will have access to a free internet experience," Wang added.
The IOC assessment team will travel to China this week. The answer will be announced in July about who won the 2022 Winter Olympics. In addition to Beijing, the only other application to host the city of Almaty, Kazakhstan.
Although it is "404" for most people, the head of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing has set up an official account on Facebook and Twitter, but the two accounts are now being watched.