On September 21 and 22, the touring exhibition on the spirit of the Beijing 2022 Games (Lhasa Leg) was held on campus at the Lhasa Beijing Experimental Middle School in Lhasa and the Lhasa Experimental Elementary School, reaching an audience of 4,000 elementary and middle school students. The exhibition was attended by Fu Xiaohui, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Director of Beijing Olympic City Development Center, Zhang Yonglin, member of the Standing Committee of Lhasa Municipal Committee of the CPC and Deputy Mayor, and Li Guangda, Deputy Secretary General of Lhasa Municipal Committee of the CPC, member of the Party Leadership Group and deputy head of the Lhasa Command Center of the Office of Beijing Municipal Leading Group for Cooperation and Assistance. The speakers included Ji Chuanpai, member of the Party Leadership Group and Deputy Director of Beijing Olympic City Development Center, Zhou Xiaoyu, member of the Party Leadership Group and deputy head of Lhasa Municipal Education Bureau, and head of Beijing Education Aid Team in Tibet, Wang Cheng, head of Media and Communications Department of Beijing Olympic City Development Center, and Mima Qiongda, Deputy Director of Lhasa Municipal Sports Bureau.

This event was an important part of the touring exhibition (Lhasa leg), with support from BODA, and jointly organized by Beijing Olympic City Development Center, Office of Beijing Municipal Leading Group for Cooperation and Assistance, the Office’s Lhasa Command Center, Publicity Department of Lhasa Municipal Committee of the CPC, Lhasa Municipal Bureau of Education and Lhasa Municipal Bureau of Sports.

(Scene at the Lhasa Beijing Experimental Middle School)

(Scene at the Lhasa Experimental Elementary School)

(Site of Lhasa Beijing Experimental Middle School)

(Lhasa Experimental Elementary School Site)

Ji Chuanpai pointed out in his speech that the spirit of the Beijing 2022 Games was a valuable spiritual wealth of the Chinese nation and a powerful spiritual driving force for national rejuvenation. To bring the Games experience closer to the youth who were born and grew on the snow-covered plateau so that they would have a deeper understanding of the spirit of the Games, the themed traveling exhibition invited speakers to tell the touching story behind the spirit of the Games to the youngsters.  It was hoped that the students would draw strength from the spirit of the Games, keep their country in mind, cultivate keen enterprise, and live youth to the fullest with great drive while contributing to building China into a socialist modern country in all respects.

(Ji Chuanpai speaking)

(Zhou Xiaoyu speaking)

(Wang Cheng speaking)

(Mima Qiongda speaking)

At the event site, the organizers presented to the two schools each a gift package containing customized footballs for the Olympic education campaign, the kits of the Olympic Torch Relay, the Olympic volunteer uniforms, and the cartoon series The Knowledge of Winter Olympics. 

(Fu Xiaohui and Liang Xin, principal of Lhasa Beijing Experimental Middle School pose for a photo with the gift package.)

(Representatives of the organizers and Liu Quanhua, principal of Lhasa Experimental Elementary School, pose for a photo with the gift package.)

During the Lhasa leg of the exhibition, 16 students of Lhasa Beijing Experimental Middle School were invited as volunteer expositors. At the site of Lhasa Beijing Experimental Middle School, these volunteers and their instructors received certificates from the co-organizers.

(Zhang Yonglin and Li Guangda pose for a photo with the certificate-holding volunteers and their instructors.)

To express the children’s love for the Olympic Games and their enthusiasm for carrying forward the spirit of the Beijing 2022 Games, Luosang Duoji, a Tibetan language teacher at the Lhasa Beijing Experimental Middle School, presented a piece of calligraphy work reading “Tashi Delek” (a Tibetan saying of welcome and blessings) to Beijing Olympic City Development Center, which will become part of the collection of the Beijing Olympic Museum.

(The Tibetan calligraphy presented by Lhasa Beijing Experimental Middle School to Beijing Olympic City Development Center)

Liu Yukun, a Paralympic champion and a torchbearer of the Beijing 2008 and Beijing 2022 Games, and Cao Wenfeng, head of the Beijing 2022 Global Communication Team, told the teachers and students present the moving stories of their dedication to the Games preparation and their profound understanding of the spirit of the Games. Their wonderful speeches and interaction with the audience created several climaxes at the scene. After listening to the speeches, the 4,000 students present were greatly inspired, and said that they would listen to the Party, follow the Party line, study hard, keep the motherland in mind and carry forward the spirit of the Beijing 2022 Games, to play their due role in realizing the Chinese dream of national rejuvenation.

(Liu Yukun speaking)

(Cao Wenfeng speaking)

(Passing the Olympic torch)

(Pose for a photo with the Olympic torch)

(A student of Lhasa Experimental Elementary School sharing her thoughts)

Also present at the event was Qi Xuan, deputy director of Media and Communications Department, and Li Haihong, deputy director of Development Research Department of Beijing Olympic City Development Center.