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China Anti-Doping Agency Unveiled to Conduct Olympic Drug Tests

Posted November 12, 2007 at 05:58 PM by Jimmie R. Markham

Section: Beijing 2008, Doping

The China Anti-Doping Agency was officially unveiled in Beijing on Monday.

Duan Shijie, Vice-Minister of the General Administration of Sport and Executive Vice-President of the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad (BOCOG), and Du Lijun, Director of the agency, attended the inaugural ceremony at the China Olympic Sports Center.

Approved by the office of the State Commission for Public Service Structure and Establishment Administration, the agency has a staff of 60, comprising the people from the Institute of Sports Medicine under the General Administration of Sport and the Anti-Doping Commission of the Chinese Olympic Committee.

Mr. Duan Shijie said at the inaugural ceremony that the newly- established China Anti-Doping Agency will promote the country’s anti-doping endeavors.

According to Du, the facility embodies China’s actions to fulfill the relevant international conventions and will play an important and positive role in enhancing cooperation with other countries in the anti-doping area.

Compared with foreign anti-doping facilities, Du said, the Chinese agency is the largest anti-doping facility, with state-of-the art instruments bought in from abroad, plus those now being used by the anti-doping agency of the Chinese Olympic Committee.

To cope with the large volume of 4,500 tests for the next Olympics, the agency is expected to lease certain instruments from various enterprises and organizations, recruit specialized volunteers, and invite a number of Chinese and foreign anti-doping experts, Duan added.

Via The Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad.