• Tightened visa rules where in travelers are required to show a return air ticket and a hotel booking before getting a visa.

• Hong Kong, host of Olympic equestrian events and a major gateway to China, has created a watchlist of unwelcome activists, and brought in new visa restrictions ahead of the Games

•·Interpol will give Beijing airport and other major border entry points access to its database of more than 14 million lost or stolen travel documents

• A 1,00,000-strong security force, including the elite Snow Wolf Commando Unit, is already on alert for terrorists. 3,00,000 surveillance cameras have been installed to monitor the city.

•·A ban on homing pigeons and kites in seven central, southern and western districts of the city that includes about 40 neighbourhoods.

• Since May, a team of People’s Liberation Army (PLA) engineers in charge of the Games’ security checks and emergency rescues has run daily drills on finding and defusing explosives and rescuing and evacuating people from damaged buildings. The UN nuclear watchdog has trained Chinese security personnel to respond to radiological attacks.

•·Gas stations within 300 metres of Olympic venues have been asked to install video-surveillance equipment and explosion-prevention devices

•·Unmanned spy planes will fly over the east coast city of Qingdao, host to sailing events, to scan for suspicious activities

• Random identity card and passport checks increased in Beijing city along with stringent security in place on public transport systems. Spot checks will be done on bottled drinks, x-ray machines and sniffer dogs deployed in subway stations to check commuters’ luggage.

• Liquids, matches and lighters have been banned in hand luggage on domestic flights.

• Fireworks have been banned from the Chinese capital for three months from July 1 and some bars and restaurants close to Olympics venues have been asked to shut down.

• Inspectors will be posted in factories making food for the Olympics to prevent food safety problems or sabotage.

• A new stability drive to present China as a harmonious nation is being conducted in restive regions like Tibet and Xinjiang. Petition campaigns by discontented citizens have been defused to prevent mass incidents such as riots and demonstrations.