Ten of the 329 pre-Games
volunteers have been honored for their first-rate work in 22 departments of the
Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad (BOCOG) in 2006.
Representatives of the pre-Games
volunteers attend the meeting that gives the highly praise of pre-Games
volunteers works.[BOCOG] |
The 329 volunteers
have worked as translators, telephone operators, lecturers on the Green
Olympics," technicians, general assistants, file administrators and collectors
of information on the infringement of Olympics-related intellectual property
rights.
Most of the volunteers come from Beijing's 40-plus universities; the rest are
professionals from city communities and commercial companies. Some of them are
even overseas Chinese. Most are under 25, the rest being middle-aged or even
older. The most senior volunteer is 78 years old.
At a meeting to review the volunteer work on Sunday, vice- director of BOCOG
Volunteer Department Zhang Zhenliang announced that the top ten volunteers would
be given due praise.
Xu Ping, one of them, translated a huge amount of documents and took part in
the preparation of several important BOCOG meetings during her 800-hour
voluntary services at BOCOG International Relations Department since September
2006.
Performing over 1700 hours of voluntary service since April 2006,
Wang Lei, a student of Beijing Normal University, worked on the design of model
rooms and the service standards of the Media Village for the Beijing Olympic
Games. She also drew up the operation plan for the Media Village on her own.
In their speeches, both Zhang Zhiwei, deputy BOCOG secretary-general and Liu
Jian, director of the volunteer department and head of the Youth League in
Beijing, fully recognized the pre-Games volunteers' contributions and urged the
whole community to draw inspiration from their selfless dedication.
