Chinese popular dishes may be featured on the menu of the
Beijing Olympics, the organizers said on Thursday.
The menu designers will fully consider the different cultural
background, dietary habits, diets and behavioral patterns of the
athletes, journalists and other people from various countries, and
meet their demands with dishes of different styles, while offering
the best Chinese dishes, according to the 89th meeting of the
Executive Board of the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games
of the XXIX Olympiad (BOCOG).
In addition to discussing the menu design for the International
Broadcasting Center (IBC), the meeting also heard reports on the
Olympic Village, Media Village and Main Press Center (MPC).
Referring to the design scheme for the Victory Ceremony
Host/Hostesses costume, the meeting noted that "Chinese elements,
national characteristics and the trend of the times" should
highlight the concept of the design. The costume will be chosen
from the submissions of the targeted designers and the public after
the panel appraisal and repeated modifications. Some submissions
have been selected and they will be made public soon to seek
opinions for the final choice.
Regarding the Olympic cultural activities, the participants
noted that they will be organized with the aim of holding
"high-level Olympics with distinguishing features" while carrying
out the concept of the "People's Olympics."
The meeting urged the use of rich Chinese cultural resources and
Beijing's position as a national cultural center to express the
best wishes of the Chinese and the people of other countries to
"share the Olympics and live in harmony and co-existence", display
the age-old Chinese cultural traditions and the characteristics of
China's 56 ethnic groups, and leave a unique cultural legacy to the
Olympic Movement through mass participation.
The meeting was chaired by BOCOG president Liu Qi, who is also
member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the
Communist Party of China (CPC) and secretary of CPC Beijing
Municipal Committee.
(Xinhua News Agency November 9, 2007)