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Host
Town Program is a unique non-sport program in the Special
Olympics World Games.Just before the opening of the
Special Olympics World Games, this program will, over
a period of 3 to 4 days, motivate community residents
in related cities, the purpose being to arrange accommodation
for athletes and coaches from all over the world in
community hotels, and to organize profuse and vibrant
community entertainment and sports events for them.During
the Host Town Program, local residents will open up
their doors, as well as their hearts, and offer delegates
from all countries the warmest reception and care possible,
driven by Chinese-style enthusiasm.By means of the Host
Town Program, many athletes who are in China for the
first time will fully feel the appeal of Chinese traditional
culture, enjoy China’s beautiful urban scenes and delicious
Chinese food, and witness the colorful lives of Chinese
citizens. Their friendship with Chinese people will
thus be enhanced, and they will succeed in taking home
with them their most memorable experience ever.
The Host Town Program of the 2007 Special Olympics World
Summer Games will be implemented from September 28 to
October 1, 2007. Nearly ten thousand foreign Special
Olympics delegation members from more than 160 countries
and regions throughout the world will be welcomed simultaneously
by more than 150 sub-districts and towns in Shanghai’s 19 districts
and counties, as well as communities in 11 cities including
Beijing, Xi’an, Harbin, Guangzhou, Dalian, Nanjing,
Suzhou, Wuxi, Hangzhou, Wenzhou, and Jiaxing. |
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