(BEIJING, Feb. 4) -- 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.
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.
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