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Samsung announced its torchers for Beijing 2008 Summer Games

Samsung China recently announced its Beijing 2008 summer games torchers sponsored by the company.

According to Samsung China website, it was said that gymnastics "queen" Liu Xuan, has been honored to be one of the Samsung's first nominated torchers. Chunlan Bai, who is a woman led people to fight with the sand drifts in western China in recent 30 years, also become one of the torchers. She said, "My wish is to block all the sands and strong winds from blowing to Beijing by my planting trees and grasses, so the Summer Gamescan have a good weather".

"Green, Culture and Technology" is the main topic of the Beijing 2008 Summer Games.

Another architecter who is in charge of one of the main summer games new buildings, Xiaojun Zhao, was also nominated.

Film director Lu Chuan joined the team as well. In 2006, it is Lu Chuan's movie Ke Ke Xi Li - Mountain Patrol, which is a 2004 film by Chinese director Lu Chuan that depicts the struggle between vigilante rangers and bands of poachers in the remote Tibetan region of Kekexili, shaked people's heart. The movie was inspired by the documentary Balance by Peng Hui. It got Don Quixote Award in Berling International Film Festival 2005 and Special Jury Prize in Tokyo International Film Festival 2004, and got National Geograpic's sponsorship.

Shengli Zhang was one of the first benefactees of the Hope Project, which was set up in the early 1980s to fund education for poor people in middle and west China. After years of Hope Project's funding, he graduated and went back to West China's rural area to be a teacher. Samsung chose Shengli Zhang as the last member of the summer games game torchers.

Samsung also declared every Chinese citizen could log to Samsung summer games Torch Tourment website, register and fill up one form. Some of them will win the chance to be the torchers.

Source: Samsung summer games Torchers Website (Chinese)

Link: Beijing 2008 Summer Games package booking

About Hope Project

Project Hope is a public welfare undertaking, initiated and organized by the China Youth Development Foundation (CYDF), that enlists extensive support from home and abroad to assist dropout students and those at risk of dropping out to continue schooling in China’s rural, poverty-stricken areas. In addition to funding these students’ studies and building schools, the CYDF has also sought to improve the educational conditions in these rural areas (including teacher training) and strengthen the government’s efforts in implementing a nine-year compulsory education law. Commonly acknowledged as China’s most influential public welfare campaign in the 20th century, Project Hope has attracted enthusiastic participation from domestic audiences of all ages as well as from those overseas. The late Chinese leader Mr. Deng Xiaoping even honored Project Hope by inscribing its logo.

By the end of 2002, Project Hope had raised over RMB 2 billion in donations, which had helped 2.47 million children and teenagers from poor families to continue their schooling and provided Stars of Hope Scholarships to altogether 111,672 students. Furthermore, Project Hope funded the construction of 9,508 Hope primary schools in poverty-stricken regions and donated 10,000 Hope mini-library sets and 3,000 Sunchime film library sets, which include audio-visual products for primary education and the equipment needed to view them. In addition, Project Hope funds had enabled over 19,135 village primary school teachers to receive further training.