China's anti-doing agency, or CHINADA, has expressed its readiness for the Beijing Olympic Games, vowing to ensure that they will be free from any doping violations.

CRI's Zheng Chenguang has more.

A series of improvements will be seen in the anti-doping procedures for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.

The number of tests has now been increased to 4,500, which is a 20% increase on the Athens games and 90% more than at Sydney.

Moreover, all top-5 finishers plus a further two will be tested, compared with the previous top-3 finalists.

Zhao Jian is CHINADA's deputy director.

"It serves as a clear demonstration of the International Olympic Committee's commitment to ensure that athletes play fair. We will also strive to make the Beijing Olympic Games a clean Olympics with our concrete action. We have enough resources and capacity to do this."

To cope with the increasing number of tests during the Games, the agency has upgraded nearly two-thirds of its original equipment to be able to meet the required level of anti-doping control.

It has also taken on about 350 international specialists in the field, many of whom have experience of serving the previous games.

Zhao Jian says the agency is even able to detect the latest doping drugs due to its constantly updated databases.

"This is one of our secret weapons. We receive relevant information about the latest performance-enhancing drugs on a daily basis. You can say we now have the most cutting-edge technology available to deal with any cheaters."

The tests will be conducted at 41 doping-control stations, 34 of which are located in Beijing and the other 7 in the co-host cities. The measures will last from July 27th to August 24th.

Zheng Chenguang, CRI news.