(BEIJING, March 10) -- Eight disabled people who were attending the
current sessions of the National People's Congress and the Chinese People's
Political Consultative Conference, paid a visit to the Olympic Tower and
exchanged views on the improvement of accessibility with BOCOG officials on
Saturday.
After Executive Vice-President of the Beijing Organizing Committee for the
Games of the XXIX Olympiad (BOCOG) Yang Shu'an's welcome, the staff of BOCOG's
Volunteer Department briefed the visitors on the preparations for the Beijing
Olympic Games and Paralympic Games. The visitors expressed their opinions and
suggestions on the volunteer services.
Zhang Haidi, a disabled role model in China, praised the availability of
accessible facilities in the Olympic Tower, including gradient passages and
lifts bearing Braille signals and guide sounds. Several Pre-Games volunteers
rendered considerable services during the visit.
The volunteer recruitment for both the Olympics and Paralympics has been well
underway since it was launched on August 28, 2006. The number of applicants had
risen to 370,372 as of March 7, with 80 percent of them willing to serve for
both Games.
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