Beijing Olympic Games: A view

China is all set with intensified preparations for Olympic Games-2008, which begins on August 8 in Beijing. The developmental projects, which have been undertaken in last few years for the preparation of Beijing Olympics is like a hump of the road for the Chinese economy. The country has taken a great extravagant step to ensure that Beijing Olympics is a success story.

Massive investments have been done on real estate, manpower, technical know-how by the government. The technology and eco-friendly products have been imported from various country, India being one of the key sources. Chinese government is heavily relying Indian small companies to make it sure that everything runs smoothly.

Indian companies will be responsible from safe landing at airports to the minutest things in getting the everything related to Beijing Olympics go smooth. Bry Air a Gurgaon based company has equipped the Beijing airport with high end ventilators. The ventilators use eco-friendly technology to purify air. The ventilators can exchange heat and cool air as per need of the surrounding environment. The same technology has been installed at the conference centre to ensure that athletes don't get suffocated because of stale air or pollutants.

A Kolkata based company will be providing softwares for safe and smooth landing of flights. The software is called CIIMS (Central Information Integrated Management System), product of Skytech Solutions, which will act like a lifeline for complete networking, security checks,c ommunications within flights.

Another sector which has been overtaken by Indian industries at Beijing Olympics is sanitary.

Well known Indian plastic hardware manufacturer Sintex Industies in collaboration with Polyjohn (UK based toiletries) will be supplying three thousand portable toilets which can be fixed or unfixed in less than an hour. The factory is set up near Allahabad. To top it all, a Pune-based company is making the roving boats and canoes, water sports equipments, Kayaks to be supplied from India.

Important exports from India to China include cotton, organic chemicals, iron, steel and inorganic chemicals among others. India's exports to China has increased many folds in 2000-01 to $ 8290.7 million (accounting for 6.56 per cent of total exports) in 2006-07. The growth continued in 2007-08, with exports to China growing to $ 3783.9 million during April-September (period for which confirmed data is available).

According to the statistics available with us, about 4.4 millions spectators will be visiting Beijing for the olympic games which would bring a huge bonanza for tourism industry of China and India, being on just the other side of the border, might benefit from such a voluminous inflow to its northern neighbour.