CHANGCHUN, Northeast China, Feb. 2 (Xinhua) -- South Korean city Pyeongchang will have the most compact venues in the history of Winter Olympic Games, said an official from the 2014 Winter Olympics bidding committee here on Friday.

    "We are announcing the most compact venues concept in history of Winter Olympics," said Kim Jin-Sun, governor of Gangwon province, where Pyeongchang is located.

    In the bid files handed in to the IOC early January, Pyeongchang, which average temperature is minus three degree centigrade in Mid-Feburary and has heavy snowfall, has promised to have games-related facilities all set within 30 minutes of driving.

    "By now I believe we are presenting the most optimal conditions for the competitions and athletes," Kim told Xinhua.

    Kim, who is also the excutive president of Pyeongchang's bidding committee, was paying a visit here to Changchun, northeast China, the host city of the sixth Asian Winter Games, to boost Pyeongchang's bid.

    There will be around 20 votes from the Asian IOC members in the election for host city of the 2014 Winter Olympics in July.

    According to Kim, Pyeongchang's strength comes from four sides besides the venue concept.

    "With the Dream Program established in 2004, 437 youth from 35 nations and regions have received two-week training programs in skiing and skating in Pyeongchang," said Kim. "And we have made the suggestion to the IOC in the bid files the creation and establishment of the World Youth Winter Sports Games to be held after the 2014 Winter Olympic Games every four years."

    As the governor of Gangwon province in northeast South Korea, the only divided province in the world, Kim also took the peace and reconsolidation of the Korean peninsula as one of the main themes of their bid and was thinking of a joint torch relay.

    The last but not the least advantage of Pyeongchang's bid is Asia's potential in winter sports.

    "Asia is relatively under-developed compare to Europe and North America in winter sports," noted Kim. "But Asia has a population of four billion, so it has great potential in winter sports and winter sport industry."

    Pyeongchang lost to Vancouver in the 2010 Winter Olympics bid by three votes.

    "We are going to do it as humbly as possible," said Kim, citing Salzburg, Austria as a fierce contender while Sochi, Russia relatively under-developed in infrastructure.