9月11日下午，北京奥组委执行副主席蒋效愚，在第三届世界华文传媒论坛上，做了《2008奥运·中国·北京》的主题发言。他透露，北京奥运会将按照量入为出、收支平衡、确保略有结余来安排预算，“预计1600万美元的盈余是有把握的”。
Beijing will spend less on staging the olympic games than athens, according to jiang xiaoyu, executive vice-president of beijing organizing committee for the 2008 olympic games.
The 2004 olympics cost athens 2.4 billion us dollars. jiang xiaoyu made the remarks at a forum of international chinese media in wuhan.
He said further that beijing will continue to observe the principle of a "frugal olympics" in organizing the 2008 games.
Beijing has an original operating budget of 1.609 billion us dollars for the games, and expects to earn 1.625 billion us dollars.