Public opinion believes that the Athens Olympic Games cost tens of billions of dollars, resulting in a huge deficit. However, according to industry experts, a large part of the tens of billions of dollars belongs to the expenditure on infrastructure construction and environmental improvement in Athens, and the expenditure directly used for the Olympic Games organization is not much.

In addition to the market development income of the Beijing Olympic Games, about 50% of the budget income of the Beijing Olympic Games is allocated by the International Olympic Committee,110 comes from tickets and souvenirs, and the sponsors of the International Olympic Committee provide about 200-300 million US dollars.

The 2008 Olympic Games will obviously promote the economic development of Beijing and even China. In the seven years since the successful bid, the Beijing Olympic Games has boosted Beijing's economic growth by 1 to 2 percentage points and China's economic growth by 0.3 to 0.4 percentage points every year.