BEIJING - Kazakhstan will host the Asian Winter Games for the first time in a 100 days.

The organizers are confident the grand sports event will be held at the highest international level. In Astana and Almaty, ambitious infrastructure projects are nearing completion as preparations begin for the opening and closing ceremonies of the Asian Games.

The successful implementation of plans for this major continental competition have a lot to do with President Nursultan Nazarbayev, who brought the society together and provided the impetus for the Asian Games 2011 project.