Sep 18, 2007

Beijing Olympic Games 2008!

The count down has already begun and the next Olympic Games are coming up in less than a year from now. Other day the local FM station featured an interview with a US journalist stationed at Beijing. Amongst other things, following caught my attention;
  • Chinese federal and state authorities have begun urging people to follow queue system while making getting in to public transport systems, banks, post offices, etc. There will be few volunteers on the street helping people to "fall in line".
  • Spitting - Chinese authorities have begun educating people not to spit in the public places and instead use plastic bags or spit in the trash cans
  • Cab drivers in Beijing are being encouraged to learn at least 50-100 english phrases like "hi how are you?". A lot of cabbies are seen playing the lessons tapes when they are free.

Way to go Beijing...Check out the Olympic games related details in the following LINK.

2 comments:

Shyam said...

Kewl. I too listened to that radio talk.
To add to your text, some houses/people are being moved from the city to outer parts to make city more beautiful.
Also, regarding, queue system, radio talk said that there is 'follow the line' day every week where people are enforced to follow line on that particular day.

Spitting - they told, people spit because of pollution and to clear their throat! Not the usual pan-beeda spitting as we usually know of.

Satish said...

Shyam,

That's correct. Thanks for filling in