Olympic model schools named
(BOCOG)
Updated: 2006-06-05 10:03
Beijing Olympic Games organizers have fulfilled their plan to construct and
name 200 Olympic education model schools in Beijing as they named the second
batch of 180 on Friday.
The representatives of
the Olympic education model schools were awarded the nameplates at
the ceremony June 2,2006.[BOCOG] |
Zhu Shanlu, member of the Standing Committee of the Beijing Municipal CPC
Committee and secretary of Beijing Municipal Education Commission, chaired the
naming ceremony at Beijing Yuying School.
Deputy Minister of Education Li Weihong announced the list of the 180
schools, while Vice Mayor Zhao Fengtong and Chairman of IOC Commission for
Culture and Olympic Education He Zhenliang awarded the nameplates. BOCOG
Executive Vice-president Jiang Xiaoyu delivered a speech to the audience.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) requests that the Olympic host city
and the country where the host city is located should propagate the Olympic
knowledge and carry forward the Olympic spirit. This provides a good opportunity
to foster comprehensive qualities of youngsters in China.
Therefore, BOCOG (Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX
Olympiad) and the Ministry of Education worked out the "Beijing 2008" Elementary
and Secondary School Olympic Education Program, launching Olympic education
among 400 million young people in China.
The effort to construct and name over 500 Olympic education model schools
nationwide, with 200 of them in Beijing, aims at pushing forward the efficient
implementation of the Olympic education. This is an important cultural legacy of
the 2008 Olympic Games and a historic breakthrough to spread the Olympic spirit.
BOCOG's Olympic education program was fully recognized by IOC and the
international community as well. The delegates to the 118th IOC session in Turin
on February 9, 2006 highly appreciated China's Olympic education work. According
to IOC President Jacques Rogge, China's undertaking to popularize the Olympic
knowledge among 400 million youngsters embodies the true essence of the Olympic
spirit.
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