Organizing committee of the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing (China) has launched a website for selling tickets directly via the Internet with the address www.tickets.beijing2008.cn .

With the opening of the website, all mature Chinese citizens can now open their own bank account to book and pay tickets to upcoming matches at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

Opened the 2008 Beijing Olympic ticket sales website images 1 Photo: Tickets.beijing2008 In addition, foreigners who have resided in China for more than 6 months can also use the service through the website above. The booking will begin to be received from April, while the payment will probably start in July, via this website or through branches of the Bank of China - the official sponsor of Summer Olympics 2008.

On this website, the 2008 Summer Olympic Organizing Committee also announced ticket prices for matches. The most expensive is tickets for the opening ceremony and closing ceremony - from 150 to 3,000 yuan a ticket (from 19.7 to 395 USD), tickets to watch the remaining competitions cost between 50 and 1000 yuan a ticket (from 6.5 to 132 USD).