Paralympics offers opportunity to learn
By Xiong Lei | China Daily | Updated: 2008-09-06 08:01

In a way, the Beijing Paralympics, which opens tonight, should be an event more significant to the Chinese people than the Olympic Games.
If the hosting of the Olympics was for China to fulfill a 100-year-old dream, and to a certain extent, show its achievements and strengths, the Paralympics is an opportunity for Beijing and the country as a whole to learn.
The Paralympics is not simply a platform to gold medals but an arena to demonstrate how determination of the human spirit can enable people to conquer their fate.
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