(BEIJING, August 10) -- More than 300 school students and teachers from five continents got together at Beijing High School No. 80 on Friday as the four-day summer camp of the 2007 Good Luck Beijing sport events kicked off.
The camp, sponsored by the Beijing Municipal Education Commission and the Media and Communications Department of Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad (BOCOG) will invite the members to watch some of the sport events, tour Beijing's cultural relics and be gusts of some local families.
The camp members came from the twin schools of the "Heart-to-Heart Partnership Program." In the days ahead, they will extend their links established through the assistance of the Olympic committee of their countries or regions or diplomatic missions.
By promoting the partnership project, BOCOG intends to boost exchange and friendship between students of the Beijing-based elementary and secondary schools and youngsters of the countries and regions where members of the Olympic Family come from.
The program requests that prior to the Olympic Games, students of the partner school in Beijing learn about the language, culture, history, geography, customs and etiquette of the corresponding country or region, as well as engage in exchange with the corresponding school.
During the Olympic Games, representatives of students and teachers of the school will go to the Olympic Village to attend the welcome ceremony, go to the competition venues to cheer for the sports delegation of the corresponding country or region, and invite athletes of the corresponding team to visit their school.
The Good Luck Beijing events serve as tests for the next summer's Olympic Games.
