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beijing's 91,000-seat national stadium will be the only outstanding building project to be completed in 2008 in time for the summer olympics, organisers have confirmed. bocog vice president jiang xiaoyu reflected on a successful year of construction at an official press conference on friday. soundbite (mandarin) jiang says: "this year, the construction of the olympic venues has got underway, run smoothly and according to plan. by the end of this year, all of the new venues (except the national stadium) will been finished as scheduled." supercaption: jiang xiaoyu, bocog vice president at the hour-long briefing, jiang also referred to sino-japanese relations and hoped to see more japanese athletes and spectators visiting beijing by the time of the games. soundbite (mandarin) "we will take consideration of the traditionally good relationship with japanese people, provide a good reception (for them) and services for the japanese athletes and create a fair competition environment for the japanese athletes. we hope the japanese athletes can achieve a good result in the beijing games." supercaption: jiang xiaoyu, bocog vice president japan's prime minister yasuo fukuda is now visiting china, promising to capitalise on a recent thaw in political relations between the two asian countries.