BOCOGs
general goal is to host high-level Olympic Games and high-level Olympics
with distinguishing features, to realize the strategic concepts of
"New Beijing, Great Olympics" and to leave a unique legacy
for China and world sports.
Distinguishing Features - The features refer to Chinese style, cultural
splendour, contemporary spirits and mass participation .The Beijing
Olympic Games will be a perfect occasion to fully display China's
5,000-year history and its resplendent culture, a grand ceremony that
will gather athletes from all over the world and present diverse and
brilliant cultures. The Beijing Olympic Games will fully express the
common aspiration of the Chinese people to jointly seek peace, development
and common progress together with the peoples of the world, and it
will highlight the fact that the 1.3 billion Chinese people of 56
ethnic groups, along with 50 million overseas Chinese, are all most
enthusiastic participants in the Beijing Olympic Games.
High-level - This includes high-level sporting venues, facilities
and competition organizations, high-level opening ceremonies and cultural
events, high-level media services and favourable press commentary,
high-level security work, high-level volunteers and services, high-level
transportation and logistics, high-level urban civility and friendliness,
and high-level performances by Chinese athletes.
