The Beijing Organizing
Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad (BOCOG) convened its 68th Executive
Board session in Beijing last Friday to study plans to recruit volunteers for
the 2008 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games.
Starting next month, BOCOG will begin worldwide recruitment of volunteers for
the Beijing Olympic Games and Paralympic Games, said the meeting chaired by
BOCOG President Liu Qi.
As a large-scale systematic project, the recruitment aims to reflect the
three Olympic concepts Green Olympics, High-Tech Olympics and People's Olympics
and the meaning of the Olympic slogan, "One World One Dream."
The volunteers will undertake corresponding posts and responsibilities during
the Games, working at times and posts designated by BOCOG, offering voluntary
services for the 2008 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games.
Project nears completion
The Tianjin Olympic Centre Stadium, situated in downtown Tianjin
Municipality, is to be completed by the end of this year. Interior decoration
work started on Sunday.
Known as the "Diamond of the Bohai Bay," Tianjin is one of the country's
biggest industrial centres and one of the key ports, and will co-host the Games
with Beijing.
Serving as one of the football venues, the Tianjin Olympic Centre Stadium
covers 78,000 square metres with a seating capacity of 60,000. Construction
started in August 2003.
After completion, the stadium will be used as a site for the FIFA Women's
World Cup China 2007 prior to the start of the 2008 Olympics.
Green belt built in Shandong
A green belt, running as long as 72.8 kilometres and 200 metres wide, has
been built in Dongying in East China's Shandong Province in a bid to create a
green corridor to link Qingdao, a co-host city for sailing events for the 2008
Olympic Games.
The green belt, with some 1.48 million trees, is on the Dongying-Qingdao
Expressway, which is the only road linking Dongying in the interior of Shandong
Province and the coastal city of Qingdao.
Construction work on the green belt started in 2004, involving removal of
rubbish, dismantling of houses, dredging of ponds and ditches and levelling of
raised fields.
International regatta facilities finished
The construction of facilities for the 2006 Qingdao International Regatta,
the first of two test events scheduled for the 2008 Olympic Sailing Competition,
was completed last Friday in this city in eastern China.
The 2006 Qingdao International Regatta will take place at the Qingdao Olympic
Sailing Centre from August 18-31 this year, and is one of the first test events
of the 28 summer sports currently on the Olympic programme.
