Starting March 5, the official website of the Beijing 2008
Olympic Games, will enroll a total of 2008 Honorary Official
Website Visitors as part of a campaign to mark the 500-day
countdown to the Olympics.
The countdown falls on March 27. Any web user who sends their
best wishes for the Olympics to the official website or the website
of SOHU company will have the opportunity to become one of the
official website's Honorary Visitors. The said websites are
designated to promote the countdown celebrations from March 5,
2007.
The year 2007 is crucial for the preparation of the Olympic
Games, and more and more people want to take part in the event and
share the Olympic joy. The present campaign will be placed under
the theme "I Participate, I Contribute and I Enjoy". Its aim is to
encourage more people to send their blessings for the Olympics,
take part in the Olympics and follow the Olympic preparations.
The number of Honorary Official Website Visitors symbolizes the
year when the Beijing Olympics will be staged. From March
5 and until 12:00 of March 26, the official website will
publish the first batch of 500 Honorary Visitors, including
official website users, officials from the Beijing Organizing
Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad (BOCOG), sport and art
stars, volunteers and disabled people. At the moment, world-famous
Chinese volleyball woman player Lang Ping has already become an
Honorary Visitor.
From March 5, web users can send their blessings and wishes to
the official website's background and thereafter be registered as
visitors of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games by filling in their ID
information, address and telephone number.
(BOCOG March 7, 2007)