At the end of the Asian Games, the Hong Kong Jockey Club will get the right of renting the Guangzhou Equestrian Venue for 50 years. This sparked great interest and Dr. Kim K.W. MAK the Affairs Executive Director of Hong Kong Jockey Club Company was interviewed. He revealed that the Hong Kong Jockey Club will invest heavily to carry out a large-scale redevelopment of the Guangzhou Equestrian Venue, which is scheduled to be put into operation in 2014, and that the existing 1300 famous horses in Hong Kong will take turns to come here for training and vacationing in due course.
The Equestrian Venue for the Games, with a cost of RMB 700 million, was designed and invested by the Hong Kong Jockey Club, which dispatched over 100 technicians and provided the technical support in terms of venue construction, sports equipment, horse management and horse transportation, etc., the requirements of which were identical to the Olympic Games. And so at the end of the Asian Games, the Hong Kong Jockey Club has won the right of renting the Equestrian Venue for 50 years.
"The equestrian event, as a breakthrough of win-win cooperation between Guangzhou and Hong Kong, was acknowledged by teams from various Asian countries, and is planned "the win-win cooperation situation will go on and on", said Dr. Kim K.W. MAK. Many athletes were satisfied with not only the high-level equestrian venue but the sights in Conghua. The "No epidemic area" has also become a precious heritage of Asian Games. The shuttle transportation of horses is allowed between Conghua and Hong Kong after the event, without signing another administrative treaty.
(Translated by Guangzhou Association of Foreign Affairs Translators)
