TY - JOUR
T1 - Chinese cities bid for the Winter Olympics : from Harbin’s failure to Beijing and Zhangjiakou’s success
AU - CHU, Pok
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - Chinese cities have participated twice in bidding for the hosting rights of the Winter Olympics. While Harbin was eliminated in 2002, Beijing and Zhangjiakou won 13 years later. This article aims to examine the reasons for their respective failure and success. The findings confirm that Chinese local governments – at both provincial and municipal levels – lack the competence to independently make successful bids and that Chinese political leaders’ support and rival cities’ withdrawal were the keys to improving the odds for the Chinese bids.
AB - Chinese cities have participated twice in bidding for the hosting rights of the Winter Olympics. While Harbin was eliminated in 2002, Beijing and Zhangjiakou won 13 years later. This article aims to examine the reasons for their respective failure and success. The findings confirm that Chinese local governments – at both provincial and municipal levels – lack the competence to independently make successful bids and that Chinese political leaders’ support and rival cities’ withdrawal were the keys to improving the odds for the Chinese bids.
KW - Winter Olympics bids
KW - Harbin
KW - Beijing and Zhangjiakou
KW - Chinese leaders
KW - Chinese local goverments
UR - http://commons.ln.edu.hk/sw_master/5416
UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85006365164&doi=10.1080%2f21640599.2016.1193302&partnerID=40&md5=7a01dfc8a33446c78877d904fec3443e
U2 - 10.1080/21640599.2016.1193302
DO - 10.1080/21640599.2016.1193302
M3 - Journal Article (refereed)
SN - 2164-0599
VL - 5
SP - 120
EP - 131
JO - Asia Pacific Journal of Sport and Social Science
JF - Asia Pacific Journal of Sport and Social Science
IS - 2
ER -