Bidding for the Olympic Games
[ 2006-05-31 14:17 ]
 中國申奧意向的形成可追溯到上世紀(jì)初，當(dāng)時的天津青年雜志就曾提出中國何時才會參加申奧并主辦奧運會。直到1979年，鄧小平同志指出，在適當(dāng)?shù)臅r機(jī)，中國會申辦奧運會。1991年至2001年，北京共籌備了兩次申奧工作，第一次申奧僅以兩票之差敗于悉尼，十分遺憾地與2000年奧運會主辦權(quán)擦肩而過。而在2001年，北京打敗了同時申奧的九大城市，贏得了2008年夏季奧運會的主辦權(quán)。這與近些年來中國經(jīng)濟(jì)的迅猛發(fā)展以及在體育上取得的顯著成就是密不可分的。
The Olympic Games are celebrated around the world as a big sports gala with
great significance of maintaining peace, enhancing friendship and promoting
civilization. As one of the most influential countries in the world today, China
is willing to do its best to promote the Olympic Movement. It is the aspiration
of the Chinese people to share the Olympic spirit, take part in Olympic affairs
and host the Olympic Games. Over the past two decades, China has achieved social
stability and economic prosperity through reform, opening up to the outside
world and modernization, and its national strength has increased greatly.
China's Olympic bid intention dates back to 1908, when the Tianjin Youth
magazine asked when China would send its athletes to the Olympic Games and when
China would host the Olympic Games. In 1979, Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping
pointed out that China would bid to host the Olympic Games when time was
appropriate. In 1984, IOC President Samaranch said the IOC would like to see
China host not only the 1990 Asian Games but also the Olympic Games.
During 1991 and 2001, Beijing, the Chinese capital city, made two Olympic
bids, one for 2000 and the other for 2008. In its first bid Beijing lost to
Sydney by a narrow margin of two votes, and in its second bid Beijing beat other
nine cities to win the right to host the 29th Olympic Summer Games in 2008,
thanks to its great potential of economic growth and the remarkable achievements
in sport made by China over the previous decade.
Beijing's renewed efforts to bid for the Olympic Games and its final success
in the bid not only have the significance for sharing the Olympic spirit,
celebrating humanity and expanding exchanges between the East and the West, but
also help provide a good opportunity of showing the current state of economic,
cultural, social and political development in China in a comprehensive way.
While showing to the world a new, vigorous image of an open, modernized,
civilized and well-developed metropolis in the lead-up to the 2008 Olympics,
Beijing is ready to become a truly international city and make every effort to
deliver a "Green Olympics", a "Hi-Tech Olympics", a "People's Olympics" and, to
top it all, an unprecedented Olympics that would leave, as an IOC Evaluation
Commission report believes, a unique legacy for both China and sport as a whole.
（英語點津姍姍編輯）
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