Foreign visitors invited to become ‘Green Olympics volunteers’
Updated: 2008-08-13 15:29:01
(BEIJING, August 13)– The city volunteers of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games were busy handing out Green Olympics-themed publicity manuals to visitors at Wangfujing on Wednesday.
The publicity manuals integrate many traditional Chinese cultural elements, such as the art of Chinese paper-cutting, elegant blue and white porcelain patterns, and lovely cartoon images of giant pandas. Olympic venue and stadium maps are also included in the manuals.
The manual is designed not only to promote Chinese culture, but also to call for foreign visitors to act as “Green Olympics volunteers.”
In the manual, China’s pandas call for everyone to become more environmentally conscious. The pamphlet encourages readers to take public transportation more, replace towels less frequently in hotels, take shorter showers, tighten water taps, use less disposable tableware, make use of environmentally-friendly shopping bags, turn off unused lights and electrical appliances and keep room temperatures above 26 degrees Celsius, among other green hints.
Foreign visitors appear to like the manuals, some even snatching them up to save as souvenirs.
The publicity manuals, available in Chinese, English and French, were published by the United Nations Office for Project Services.
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