(BEIJING, May 30) -- Chen Yueying and Zhang Xueyan, officials from the Singapore Sports Council and the National Olympic Committee (NOC), were invited to visit Beijing No. 9 High School on the afternoon of May 28 for further exchange of the Heart-to-Heart Partnership program.
The guests expressed sympathy for those that suffered through the Wenchuan earthquake and conveyed full confidence in the success of the Beijing Olympic Games. The two sides conferred about the details of greeting the partner NOC athletic delegation during the Team Welcome Ceremony at the Olympic Village, get-together activities, and supporting athletes at competition sessions. Teachers and students from No.9 High School are already prepared to welcome the Singapore athletes at the Beijing Olympic Games. In the evening, the guests were invited to dinner at the school. They will also make inspection tours to the Olympic venues and hotels during their stay in Beijing.
It is reported that No.9 High School and Singapore have held several Heart-to-Heart Partnership program activities with satisfactory success: Teachers and students made exchange visits in August of 2007; in September, Zhang Sile, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports of Singapore visited No.9 High School; Hao Xianjun, schoolmaster of No.9 High School, participated in the international symposium held at Raffles Junior College of Singapore in March, 2008;and Singapore Sports Council Chairman Chen Minghua and CEO Wen Deren visited No.9 High School in April of this year.
