"I never care if people say Guangzhou Asian Games is too much commercial." In the afternoon of yesterday, Liu Jiangnan, Director of Administration of Sport of Guangzhou Municipality said frankly, the more Guangzhou Asian Games could raise money in society, the less it would speed money of taxpayers. So far the commercial sponsor and market development of Guangzhou Asian Games are the most successful in the history of Asian Games.

"When Guangzhou bid for Asian Games last year, we were really afraid if it was too hard to handle." Liu Jiangnan said, the host of Asian Games, an international large-scale comprehensive event like it, needed huge operation costs and Guangzhou Asian Games would set 42 competition items in totally as the largest Asian Games in history. Besides, different from Beijing's Olympic Games while International Olympic Committee funded Beijing Olympic Organizing Committee, partial incomes of Guangzhou Asian Games were required to be submitted to Olympic Council of Asia. Therefore Guangzhou must carefully consider its financial burden as the host of this Asian Games.

But Liu Jiangnan also said, now he felt relieved with this matter because Guangzhou has established the thought "Frugal Asian Games". According to estimation, the operation costs of the event could be controlled within 3 billion Yuan. Meanwhile the market development of Guangzhou Asian Games was the most successful and had realized the goal of 2 billion Yuan. "So far our development achievement is the best in the history of Asian Games. Market development of Doha (Asian Games) lagged far behind Guangzhou's even it had spent so much money".

Liu Jiangnan said, the post-game use of newly constructed venues of Asian Games was also an important problem for frugal Asian Games. For instance, Athens spent huge money to build a lot of venues to host 2004's Olympic Games. However the use rate of these venues was not high after Olympic Games and the maintenance fee was 100 million Euro a year so that local government had to blow up these venues later. "This situation must be avoided in Guangzhou". Therefore, when Liu Jiangnan was attending panel discussion of Fanyu Team, he encouraged entrepreneurs among representatives of People Congress of Fanyu to actively participate in market development and operation of Asian Games venues after the event.

In discussion, Liu Jiangnan also said, all opening ceremonies of the past large-scale sports events held in Guangzhou took place in Olympic Stadium. However, Beijing Olympic Games Opening Ceremony last year was really wonderful. Accordingly, it was hard for Guangzhou Asian Games Opening Ceremony to do better than Beijing's if it takes place in the Stadium. "Now Hong Kong East Asian Games Opening Ceremony is planned to be held in Victoria Bar", Liu Jiangnan suggest that Guangzhou consider his idea-hold Asian Games Opening Ceremony above Pearl River to give people a brand-new feeling.