A plan was released Wednesday that outlined key tasks that the
Beijing Olympic Committee (BOCOG) needs to do in order to have the
best possible personnel available for the Olympic games now less
than 14 months away.
A key element to make the Games successful is the volunteers.
Xin Tieliang, deputy director of the Organization Department
outlined this at the press conference.
Volunteers will be supervised by the Municipal Committee of the
Communist Youth League. There will be 100,000 volunteers at the
Games, most of who are recent university graduates. Other
volunteers include 500 from Hong Kong, Macao and other foreign
countries.
One reporter asked if BOCOG would help the university graduates
find jobs after the Olympics. An official replied that while
volunteers would receive special training prior to the Games, BOCOG
would give them special recommendations to help them in their job
hunting.
Tourism will also play a major role, and a tourism team will be
in charge of managing the number of visitors that the Games will
bring. The Municipal Tourism Administration will train 55,000
people, including recent university graduates who majored in hotel
management.
The Beijing Action Plan of Olympic Human Resources, distributed
by several Olympic bodies, created 17 departments that will have
specific responsibilities including foreign affairs, traffic,
public health, tourism and volunteers.
(China Daily June 7, 2007)
