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People's Daily Editorial Hails Beijing's Successful Bid
The People's Daily, China's leading newspaper, will carry an editorial Saturday that hails Beijing's successful bid for the 2008 Olympic Games as a long cherished dream of the Chinese people coming true.
The editorial thanks the trust of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the support of the overseas Chinese and the international society.
It recalls that late Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping had suggested China bid for the Olympic Games as early as in 1990, and that even the failure in 1993 did not damp the Chinese people's enthusiasm towards the Olympic Games.
Today's China is enjoying unprecedented political stability, economic prosperity and ethnic harmony, while the city of Beijing is witnessing rapid development, with its environment improving and more and more sports facilities in place, the editorial says, adding that this has laid a solid foundation for a successful Olympic Games in Beijing.
The editorial notes that the holding of the Olympic Games in the world's most populous country will greatly help promote the Olympic spirit and exchanges between the Chinese and Western cultures.
China's fast-growing economy will also assure that an Olympic Games in Beijing will bring tremendous opportunities for businesses worldwide and greatly promote the development of world trade, says the editorial.
It points out that hosting the 2008 Olympic Games will offer an important opportunity for China in the beginning of the new century, as it will greatly inspire the patriotism of the Chinese people and promote the rapid development of China's reform and opening-up and socialist modernization drive.
The editorial pledges that China will keep its promises in its bid and spare no efforts in its preparations to present the world with the best Olympic Games ever in history.
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