What they say

One can achieve excellence through peaceful means. The Olympics is a battle without casualties, a competition without anger, and winning a competition is a noble victory without any hostility. It means one can win in a peaceful way. The excellence achieved in sports competitions is not fundamentally about comparing oneself with others, but about self-improvement and self-transcendence.

Qin Lu, professor of the Department of Literature and History, Chinese Academy of Governance

The ancient Olympic Games formed a sense of world community through a series of cultural activities centered on sports competitions and promoted cultural exchanges between different city states, while the modern Olympics movement has played a great role in promoting cultural diversity, as well as exchanges and mutual appreciation between different cultures. It has brought together people from different regions, colors, races, faiths and political positions to interact, cooperate and work together.

Fang Xu, professor of Chongqing Institute of Public Administration

Political virtue is a common concern of Chinese and Greek civilizations. The ancient Greek poet Homer regarded virtue as the only sacred thing in the pursuit of political life, and this belief coincided with the classical Chinese sages' teachings on virtuous politics. It is extremely important that today's Chinese scholars understand the thoughts of other civilizations, such as those of Homer's, based on their own civilization and traditions, because it has a bearing on how we can better deepen our knowledge and understanding of the process of how we communicate and learn from other cultures, and then develop a new political civilization discourse.

He Fangying, researcher at the Institute of Foreign Literature, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences