Media services from around the world are busy making final preparations for the upcoming Olympic Games.

In the main press center, or MPC, in Beijing, technical personnel have been working to guarantee effective and efficient technical support for their Olympic coverage.

Our reporter Dan Dan has the story.

Covering an area of 700 square meters, the workroom for the Associated Press in MPC is the largest. The agency has dispatched a team of 300 people to go to Beijing, 100 more than those who went to the Athens Games four years ago.

Ben Bonnet, a network engineer with AP, says they've been in MPC for a week making equipment adjustments.

"Right now, we have about 22 technical people here on site. We're building to connect the remote venues and make photo files to our satellite uplinks. Athens was really nice; things have been going quite a bit smoother. We've got a lot more experience doing these technical things now."

But it's not only big agencies like AP and Reuters who have sent large reporting teams to Beijing, large media services have also originated from countries like Australia.

Alex Hammel, media director of Australia Olympic Team, provides an overall picture.

"We have television rights holders, we have radio here, we have internet here, we have newspapers. There's a massive team coming. There's maybe about 500 journalists coming in total. It's a lot because we have lots of athletes coming and Australia is very interested in Olympic Games, always have been."

Alex Hammel says there will be more Australian journalists coming to the Games this year compared with four years ago. And he explains why.

"There will be more journalists coming because Australia is more interested in China because we're neighbors and we've been trading partners for many years. I think because of that reason, there's more interest in China than in Athens."

In the International Broadcast Center, neighboring the MPC, broadcasters are busy transporting and installing their equipment.

Benoit Trottier with Canadian Broadcasting Corporation says they've already completed 80 percent of the technical preparation work. And he introduces his company's plan on live broadcasting during the Games period.

"We'll do about 22 hours a day. Some of the days, it's between 20 and 22 hours a day. It's a bit similar to the Summer Games in Athens."

Dan Dan, CRI news.