http://guanxiblogs.com/frankyu Land of Opportunity Mon, 10 Dec 2007 02:01:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The photos taken on August 11 show the Beijing National Stadium by Frank YU, or the Bird's Nest, the main venue for the 2008 Olympic Games. Located at the Olympic Green, and with a land surface of 258,000 square meters and a seating capacity of 91,000, the stadium will ... http://guanxiblogs.com/frankyu/2007/09/10/the-birds-nest/ BEIJING, August 6 (Xinhua) -- Beijing Olympic organizers are confident of ensuring food safety of the Games to be held in the Chinese capital next summer."We are very confident of ensuring food safety in Beijing," said Wang Wei, executive vice president of the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games ... http://guanxiblogs.com/frankyu/2007/08/06/bocog-confident-of-ensuring-food-safety-of-beijing-games/ BEIJING, August 5 -- A theme song marking the one-year countdown to the 2008 Beijing Olympics was released on Saturday in Beijing. Entitled "We Are Ready", it was co-recorded by more than 130 singers from the Chinese mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan. It mainly expresses ... http://guanxiblogs.com/frankyu/2007/08/06/theme-song-to-brighten-olympic-one-year-countdown/ BEIJING, July 1 (Xinhua) -- The first phase of ticket sales for the 2008 Olympic Games has come to a close with more than 700,000 people booking over 4.9 million tickets, officials said on Sunday."By 24:00 last night, we have received more than 700,000 orders," said Rong ... http://guanxiblogs.com/frankyu/2007/07/02/bookings-for-beijing-olympic-tickets-far-exceed-supply/ According to XINHUA, China held here Tuesday afternoon a state-level anti-terrorist exercise for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. BEIJING, June. 19 (Xinhua) -- China held here Tuesday afternoon a state-level anti-terrorist exercise for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. The exercise, dubbed Great Wall No. 4, held in Beijing, focused on ... http://guanxiblogs.com/frankyu/2007/06/24/china-holds-anti-terrorist-exercise-for-2008-olympics/ The Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad (BOCOG) announced how be a torchbearer for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games yesterday, as following:   (Beijing, June 23) -- The Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad (BOCOG) announced here on Saturday the torchbearer selection ... http://guanxiblogs.com/frankyu/2007/06/24/to-be-a-torchbearer-for-the-beijing-2008-olympic-games/ I just returned to Beijing yesterday from Barcelona, where I met a lot of journalists from the world. When we talked about China, most of them told me that what’s they impressed China was from the media reports, such as Reuters’ reports. Clearly, I felt that there were some biased ... http://guanxiblogs.com/frankyu/2007/06/22/go-to-china-and-depict-china-fairly/                                                                                                                                                                            I just happened upon a new website, named Read Chinese and developed by the University of Maryland’s National Foreign Language Center to help teach high school students in USA to read Chinese and to provide essential classroom support for teachers, with very high-quality teaching materials . I ... http://guanxiblogs.com/frankyu/2007/06/08/a-wonderful-website-to-learn-to-read-chinese/ ... http://guanxiblogs.com/frankyu/2007/06/06/walk-for-lupus-at-shanghai/                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 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 ... http://guanxiblogs.com/frankyu/2007/05/27/2007-shanghai-special-olympics/