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Description: Three concepts have been adopted for the Beijing Olympic Games, namely, the Green Olympics, the High-tech Olympics and the People’s Olympics.

Green Olympics – Environmental protection is a key prerequisite for designing and constructing the Olympic Games’ facilities, while strict ecological standards and systematic guarantee systems will be established. Environmentally friendly technologies and measures will be widely applied in environmental treatment to structures and venues. Urban and rural afforestation and environmental protection will be widely enhanced in an all-round manner. Environmental awareness will be promoted among the general public, with citizens greatly encouraged to make

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Some wallpapers and photos form the opening ceremony of Beijing Olympic Games;

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While most people in the West are still in offices, China is celebrating the Opening Ceremony. With over 80 officials from as many countries and an enviable security presence around the National Stadium of Beijing the inaugural ceremony is underway.

Drummers have already taken the stage and dancers are on their way. The Olympic opening ceremony will no doubt serve as a time when millions around the world will reflect on how much of even Western culture is influenced by China. Fireworks were originally a Chinese invention. Football or soccer was said to be born in China and so too many of the martial and combat arts practised as sport around the world. The Mongol empire may have fallen but is not forgotten.

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If the Beijing Olympics were a book, what would it look like?

Given the tight secrecy surrounding the opening ceremonies and heavy security preparations in the capital, it might not be an open book. Given Beijing’s penchant for a lavish Olympic celebration, it would probably be over-the-top.

That seems to be the thinking behind the IOC’s official Beijing Olympics book.

A statement from the book’s printer, MediaWorks Asia, tells us that the book will be covered in gold silk, which sounds appropriately fit for an emperor.

And it’s not a book for just anyone. Only 800 copies will be printed, and the IOC will give them as gifts to VIPs such as the chiefs of Olympic sporting federations and heads of state (presumably only those who are coming to Beijing for the Games). The volumes are currently en route to the capital from printing plants in China under tight security.

(Photo courtesy of MediaWorks Asia)

(Photo courtesy of MediaWorks Asia)

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Do you want to read some lies (or not the exact truth) , go on;

Beijing Olympics: Terror bombing was ‘Muslim jihad’
By Malcolm Moore in Kashgar (telegraph.co.uk)

“We found papers on one of the suspects saying that their religious beliefs are more important than their lives, the prosperity of their families and even the well-being of their mothers. They were trying to perform a jihad,” said Shi Dagang, the Communist party secretary of Kashgar.

The two men were named as Abdul Rahman, 28, and Kurbanyan Ahmet, 33, both from Kashgar. Mr Shi said one was a taxi driver, the other was a hawker.

The two men drove a lorry into a troop of policemen that were on a morning jog outside the Yi Jin hotel. After the lorry overturned, the men threw homemade grenades at the policemen before stabbing them with knives, Mr Shi said.

“One of the men lost his arm in the explosion. The other is already on trial. We recovered nine grenades, two long knives, two daggers and a gun.”

He vowed that there would be a “severe and continuous crackdown” on future attacks, which he said were being instigated by foreign terror groups.

“From our investigation, this was well-plotted for a long time, at least a month,” said Mr Shi. “The attackers knew the times when the police do their jogging.” Continue Reading »

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Chinese in Egypt are busy preparing for celebrations as the Beijing Olympic Games is drawing near.

“The Beijing Olympics is an honor and pride to all Chinese across the world,” said Li Xinxin, president of the Chinese-speaking women’s association in Cairo.

She contacted authorized local broadcaster and subscribed to their services in order to watch the games on television. Chinese in Cairo will gather together to watch the televised opening ceremony on Aug. 8, she said.

“We simply cannot miss the chance to see the games hosted by China. We’ve been waiting for too long,” said Li, who has lived in Egypt for nearly 19 years.

Celebrations will also be organized at the Chinese Culture Center in Cairo on the opening day of the games.

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The Olympics will showcase China’s peace-loving image and its determination to embrace peace, President Hu Jintao told foreign journalists here on Friday.

Hu made the comments during a group interview with journalists from 25 international media organizations. He said the Games were “a grand activity of peace and friendship” in response to a question from an Aljazeera reporter.

The president was asked whether China worries that a successful Beijing Olympics, which could enhance China’s national strength, would intensify the so-called “China Threat” theory. His response was that China is still the biggest developing country in the world despite its remarkable progress in modernization over the past 30 years.

The problems China faces in its development process are unusual, he said.

“We will build a comprehensive welfare society benefiting a billion of our population, so as to realize national modernization and the common good of all Chinese people. China still has a long way to go,” Hu said.

China has explicitly announced that it observes a defensive military policy and will never seek hegemony or military expansion. China will unswervingly adhere to the road of peaceful development and the opening-up strategy aimed for mutual benefits, Hu said.

The president said Chinese people wish to join hands with people across the globe to build a harmonious world of lasting peace and common prosperity.

Xinhua

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IN THE language of architecture, the Beijing Capital International Airport’s statement of intent is concise and unequivocal: it is a building designed for shock and awe.
This week, as hundreds of thousands of tourists, athletes, journalists, and administrators descend on China in advance of the Olympic Games, the new Terminal Three building will offer them a startling introduction to the nation.

Designed by Norman Foster at a cost of £1.75 billion, it is one of the largest structures in the world, dwarfing even the combined size of all five of Heathrow’s terminals.

Encompassing a double-skinned aluminium canopy of silver slats under a russet roof, it is a potent symbol of what outside observers have been declaring as the engagement of China with westernisation.

For all their aesthetic power, however, the creations of Foster and his peers – such as Herzog & de Meuron, the Swiss architects behind Tate Modern, who designed the new National Stadium – the new skyline of Beijing ought not to suggest the fruits of three decades of modernisation are all-encompassing, or have emerged without pain or strife.

The grand Socialist landmarks still remain – the Great Hall of the People and the Revolutionary Museum – but more telling is what has been razed to make way for the vast Games infrastructure.

According to the Geneva-based Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE), about 1.5 million people have been displaced from their “hutong” homes since 2000 due to construction and urban redevelopment, not including those migrant workers living in temporary neighbourhoods, or those dissidents rounded up and removed from sight. In a report published this month, it directly blames the Beijing Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (BOCOG) for destroying affordable housing units, and using tactics of harassment, repression, imprisonment, and even violence.
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China on Thursday issued a strong rebuke of President Bush for meeting with five Chinese dissidents in the White House this week, saying he had “rudely interfered” with China’s internal affairs and sent a “seriously wrong” message to others who criticize the country.

The comments by Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao were unusually pointed against Bush, who China considers a friend. Bush supported the Chinese by resisting activists’ calls to boycott the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony to protest China’s human rights record. He also sat for a one-on-one interview with China’s state-controlled television without requiring preconditions that would limit editing of his remarks.

“I respect the Chinese people,” Bush said in the interview. “I’m coming to China as the president and as a friend.”

Bush met Tuesday in the White House residence with five prominent Chinese dissidents: Harry Wu, a critic of Chinese prisons; Wei Jinsheng, a democracy activist; Sasha Gong, a writer; Bob Fu, of the China Aid Association, and Rebiya Kadeer, who advocates for more protection of rights for the Uighurs, an ethnic minority in western China’s Xinjiang region.
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