My Asian Games

Reporter's Note: Ordinary people's participation

By Zhang Yuchen (chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2010-10-18 20:20

It's quite an amazing experience to follow the Asian Games torch rely invited by Guangzhou Asian Games Organizing Committee (GAGOC), though the journey just started days ago.

With other reporters half of whom come from Beijing, I arrived in Shenzhen on Sunday. And in the stop of Shenzhen I saw some differences.

In the Shenzhen stop, there are two common-person torch bearers among the 80. Along the route of bearing the torch, I heard the crowd boosting the moral of runners. When the bearers who are the bosses or managers of a certain company, employees in the line along the road shouted very loudly: they cried out the names of the bearers and the names of the companies. They are just many. It seemed that it was the whole company cheering for the top.

But when the two common bearers run through, only a few voices spoke for them. However, very sincere - simply for their names. Those are their colleagues feeling really happy about them representing the working people in the city participating the grand meeting.

Zhang Qingqing, 22, female worker from Foxconn, ran the 53th leg of the torch rely, said it was out of her imagination that she, a female production line worker, could be a torch bearer. "(It was) A big surprise for me," she said.

Happy hour also visits Lv Xiangping. The-25-year female steward in Shenzhen Bus Group celebrated her birthday during running and bearing the torch. "It is just unbelievable."

Yes, when common people's participation added flavor to the Games, the Games would give more happiness to the life of residents. Just hope it will come true of the new life with the Games.