Mom talks Olympics

 
This photo shows a mother explaining Olympic history to her young son in front of the Olympic milestone set up at the crossroads of Qingdao’s Shandong Avenue and Anshan Avenue.
According to reports, the very recently completed milestone displays Olympic history on individual squares of stone, also showcasing each Olympic Games’ mascots and posters.

Olympics a ‘great time’ for diplomacy

The Olympic Games will give China a chance to inject new vitality into its diplomatic image, experts said.
The Games should contribute greatly not only to the development of sports, but also to the ties between China and the rest of the world, they said.
Tsinghua University professor Liu Jiangyong said China will use the Games to […]

Chinese-English “First Aid brochure” issued for Olympics

A Chinese-English edition of first aid guidance has been issued to help foreign athletes and tourists at the forthcoming Beijing Olympics.The brochure translates medical expressions on different types of allergies, diarrhoea and fever, and contains a map of hospitals and first aid centers in the Chinese capital.
In case of emergency, the brochure can also be […]

How China won its bid for the 2008 Olympics

One of the great leaps leading up to the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games was the remarkable change in China between its near-miss bid in 1993 and the successful bid eight years later.
Overseas media say that two events in the late 20th century and early 21st century will go down in history as events of historic […]