Coordination Commission chair Alexander Zhukov, also the President of the Russian Olympic Committee, will lead the delegation of officials during the three-day event, which concludes on Wednesday (October 12).

It is set to get underway with a tour of the venues located closest to Beijing, with the Coordination Commission members due to be given a briefing on venue planning and construction.

They will inspect progress at a number of facilities, including the Beijing Olympic Tower, the National Indoor Stadium, which will host ice hockey, and the National Aquatics Centre, the home of curling during the Winter Olympics and Paralympics in six years’ time.

Beijing 2022 will then give a series of presentations to the visiting officials on Monday afternoon, before the members visit the Yanqing zone, earmarked to stage Alpine skiing, on Tuesday (October 11).

Luge, bobsleigh and skeleton will also be held in Yanqing, though an exact location of the sliding track has not yet been confirmed by organisers. 

Two locations have been shortlisted after they were agreed by International Luge Federation President Joseph Fendt and International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation counterpart Ivo Ferriani, a member of the Beijing 2022 Coordination Commission, following a "flying visit" to China to assess the situation in July.

The IOC Coordination Commission and Beijing 2022 representatives will also head up to the venue hub at Zhangjiakou, located around three hours by road from Beijing.

The resort is likely to be a hot topic during the visit as the visiting Coordination Commission will be keen to see the current state of construction of the Beijing-Zhangjiakou high-speed railway network, which is expected to be completed by 2019.

The ¥58.41 billion (£7 billion/$8.7 billion/€7.8 billion) railway was approved last November, with the 174 kilometre-long line due to connect Beijing with the northern city in Hebei province.

A ¥6.5 billion (£783 million/$974 million/€869 million) extension to the line was granted in June, from Zhangjiakou city to Chongli resort, the planned home for freestyle skiing, snowboarding, cross country, Nordic combined, ski jumping and biathlon events.

Questions remain, however, over whether the journey from Beijing to Zhangjiakou can really be reduced to just 50 minutes as claimed. 

A perceived lack of snow in Beijing, which will become the only city to host both the Summer and Winter Olympic Games, could also be discussed.

Talks will be held with various local officials, including Beijing 2022 president Guo Jinlong, during the visit.

Beijing won the right to host the Games at the 128th International Olympic Committee (IOC) Session in Kuala Lumpur last year, narrowly defeating only rival Almaty by 44 votes to 40.