A volunteer send New Year gifts to
passengers in front of a shopping mall in Beijing on Sunday, February 18,
2007. [news.cctv.com]
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About 1,600 volunteers for the 2008
Beijing Olympics started a week-long training program on Sunday, the beginning
of the Spring Festival, offering information, translation or interpretation
services and emergency aid.
The volunteers took up positions at 50 work stations in key hotels, shopping
centers and tourist sites in Beijing and offered tourist information and
translation services, according to Qiang Wei, an official in charge of volunteer
work for the 2008 Olympics.
Beijing plans to enlist 100,000 volunteers to work at the Olympics and the
Paralympics, and 400,000 others who will work in 2,000 voluntary work stations
around the capital.
The number of applications has exceeded 320,000 since the recruitment program
began last August, according to the Beijing Organizing Committee for the 2008
Olympic Games.
