'Olympic Families Tour Beijing' attracts many families
(BOCOG)
Updated: 2007-04-18 10:47

Among the applicant families from 44 countries and regions, there are the Chinese families who took part in the torch relay of the Turin Olympic Winter Games, the American families who were involved in the presentation of the opening ceremony of the Salt Lake Olympic Winter Games and a number of Chinese families now living abroad.

Since the campaign kicked off on April 9, the number of visitors to the campaign page on the official website of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games has kept rising, with over 20,000 votes cast online, and the daily page views have surpassed 87,000. The "Family of Angels" from China ranks first with 5,261 votes, followed by the "gotobeijing" family from the United States with 3,805 votes, according to statistics as of 5:00 pm local time, April 16.

In cooperation with China Mobile, the website of www.beijing2008.cn launched the campaign, which will make it possible for ten families, five from China and five from the rest of the world, to tour Beijing and the co-host cities ahead of the Olympic Games.

For this initiative of BOCOG's Media and Communications Department, the selection will take place via the Internet. The tour through Beijing and the co-host cities will begin on August 8, 2007.

The campaign will serve as an illustration of the Olympic theme slogan "One World One Dream". Families with a keen interest in the Beijing Olympics from China and abroad, after being invited through the Internet, are expected to remain in close contact in order to better understand each other's culture and enhance the friendship between the Chinese people and the other peoples of the world. At the same time, the campaign will provide foreigners with a unique opportunity to gain a first-hand understanding of Beijing and China, and to see how the 2008 Olympic Games are being prepared.

A bilingual, Chinese and English website functions as the main platform for the campaign, which will unfold in three successive stages: during phase 1, from April 9 to May 31, 100 families, 50 Chinese and 50 overseas, will be selected; during Stage 2, from June 1 to June 30, the top ten winning families will be picked for the tour, which will start during Stage 3, from July 1 to August 16.

In August 2007, on the occasion of the one-year countdown to the Beijing Olympic Games, the ten winning families will come to Beijing to start their tour.

The participants must be families with at least three members and register with the official website of the BEIJING 2008 Olympic Games. Meanwhile, the website users can create their blogs at Sohu.com, in which they can express their feelings and wishes for the Olympic Games and exchange their views on the Olympic spirit.

For more information of the campaign, please visit the official website of the BEIJING 2008 Olympic Games www.beijing2008.cn.

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