The auctions, open to everyone, will last a year, according to the Beijing Evening Newspaper.
The China Beijing Equity Exchange has been authorized to sell 33 types of Games equipment including furniture, electrical appliances, electronics and sporting apparatus.
The auction list also includes the 2008 pieces of fou, a wine container that can be struck with a stick to produce a musical sound, on which 2008 performers played at the opening ceremony, and the chairs with high backs especially made for VIPs in the National Stadium, known as the Bird's Nest.
The China Beijing Equity Exchange will issue media notices and publish details of the articles to be auctioned on its Website (http://www.cbex.com.cn).
On August 5, the first batch of Olympic Games assets, a set of old office furniture, was auctioned. Valued at 3,900 yuan, it was finally sold for 23,000 yuan, the newspaper said.
Furniture
The items were mainly pieces of furniture from the Olympic Village, including more than 20,000 bed stands with locks, about 17,000 leisure chairs and 16,000 cushions, according to the head of the equity exchange.
Next under the hammer will be 1,470 pieces of furniture and electrical appliances.
The footwear China's Olympic champion gymnast Yang Wei wore during the final was also auctioned at the biggest domestic online store Taobao.com.
Yang's girlfriend Yang Yun set the price at 500 yuan, but the price surged as high as 15,000 yuan after two days.
A Taobao user said he finally won the bid but refused to disclose the price.
Meanwhile, at Beijing Capital Airport, five Olympic souvenir watches were sold on Tuesday. Each cost 88,800 yuan.
An Olympic souvenir retailer at Terminal 3 sold 4,600 pieces a day in the last few days.
This means it sold about six souvenirs a minute.
The Shanghai Evening News reported that the store would normally sell about 1,700 pieces a day.
A tourist had bought 120,000 yuan worth of souvenirs in one bulk purchase at the airport, according to the newspaper report.
