Beijing 2008 Olympic-will it be Renouncing to World?

It is in Beijing, of course, that the impact of the Games is felt most intensely. total Olympics-related expenditures by Beijing will hit $38 billion, some four times as much as was spent preparing Athens for the 2004 Games.

A fifth subway line to the airport , brand-new airport terminal , venues and facilities being built for the Olympics will be ready in time. ,half a million volunteers are being trained to answer visitors' questions, some 4 million Beijing residents have received English-language lessons.

Beijing is Shining,everything is rising. A year before China's capital hosts the 2008 Summer Olympic Games, its economy is swelling by 12%. .Beijing is remaking the city, with migrant workers from every corner of China standing wide-eyed on the streets, lured by the hundreds of thousands of jobs has created. capitalists from San Francisco, artists from Brussels, chefs from Rome, businessmen from Taipei, Berlin and Tel Aviv are investing their efforts.

The weight of expectation and symbolism carried by the 2008 Olympics is something else. For the billions watching around the world, the Olympics will be a time when a resurgent China shows its most confident face .

For many ordinary Chinese, the Games mark the ability to knock off two centuries of humiliation by foreigners. In the 19th century, China used to be called the sick man of Asia . The Olympics will totally change that. Hundreds of thousands of athletes, reporters and visitors will see Real present China .

The Olympics will signify the transformation of their city--rival New York or London as an iconic world city of the new century. country has nearly 23% of the planet's population.

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