I am attending an international congress in Shanghai, which is an extremely important meeting and makes me pretty busy. But I am still impressed by the preparations the city is making for the 2007 Shanghai Special Olympic Games, which will be held this October and held in Asia for the first time. The city is becoming surrounded by the Special Olympics atmosphere.

Among the Special Olympic Games, Olympic Games and Paralympic Games, Shanghai Special Olympic Games will be the first. So the Special Olympic Games are hoped to have a good start.

It is estimated that China has more than 13 million people with intellectual disabilities, and has over 500000 Special Olympics athletes.

More than 10 thousand special athletes and their coaches, and thousands of athletes’ family members, friends, and journalists from the whole world are expected to go to Shanghai for the Special Olympics.