Ambassador Yang Hails Beijing's Success for 2008 OlympicsChinese ambassador to the United States Yang Jiechi Friday hosted a banquet at the Chinese embassy in Washington DC, congratulating Beijing for its successful bid to host the 2008 Olympic Games."Today, Beijing won the right to host the 2008 Olympic Games, it's a victory for the 1.3 billion people in China and the overseas Chinese all around the world," ambassador Yang said. "The 2008 Beijing Olympics will become a green Olympics, a technological Olympics and a humanities Olympics as China, with a history of 5,000-year civilization, has achieved the rapidest economic growth in the past decades and great steady progresses in technology," said the ambassador. The banquet was attended by hundreds of overseas Chinese, representatives of Chinese organizations and Chinese students around Washington D.C. In the morning, dozens of Chinese overseas students gathered at the educational office of the Chinese embassy to watch live transmission from the IOC session in Moscow by China Central Television. Cao Jing, a Chinese overseas student in George Mason University, said that "Beijing's success to win the hosting right for the 2008 Olympics justifies the fact that China is becoming stronger in the world, and we're sure that the 2008 Olympic Games will be of great success in Beijing." Xie Bin, another Chinese overseas student in Georgetown University, said that China's rapid economic growth has been attracting more and more attentions from the world and the Olympics will surely give great impetuses for economic development in China in the future. When Beijing was awarded the hosting right today, a lot of overseas Chinese sent their congratulatory corbeils to the Chinese consulate in Chicago, expressing their great happiness and best wishes for the epoch-making Olympic Games to be held seven years later in the most populous country in the world. |
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