China's Contribution to the Development of Modern Olympic Movement

As the Beijing Olympic Games draws to a close, the world sincerely thanks China for hosting such an Olympic Games and making the world dream come true.

Many years later, looking back on 2008, the world may forget the ownership of the gold medal, but it will remember the "China scroll" that amazed the world at the opening ceremony, the beautiful Iraqi athlete Dana running in the "Bird's Nest", the friendly kiss between Russians and Georgians on the podium ... and China's countless efforts for this Olympic Games. In August this year, China people built such a harmony for the world.

China people's outstanding contribution to the Olympic Movement not only provided the best athletes in the world with good competition and training conditions, but also created many firsts in the Olympic history, which not only popularized the Olympic spirit among the 65.438 billion+300 million people in China. ...

The Olympic Movement will remember that through the Beijing Olympic Games, China's culture and harmonious practice have greatly enriched the Olympic culture, and China's contribution has been incorporated into the Olympic universal values.

The Olympic Movement originated in the West and contains universal values highly recognized by people all over the world, but the universal values are not original in the West. Oriental culture is also an important part of Olympic culture. At the Tokyo and Seoul Olympic Games, traditional oriental sports such as judo and taekwondo entered the Olympic Games, which greatly enriched the Olympic culture. The Beijing Olympic Games further clarified China's understanding of the rich connotation of the contemporary Olympic spirit, and China made his own positive contribution to the exploration and development of human values represented by Olympic culture.

Beijing Olympic Games is not only a happy reunion of athletes from all over the world every four years, but also a grand festival for dialogue, exchange and communication among all ethnic groups in the world. This is a great handshake between the Olympic Movement with a long history and Chinese civilization in China, and also a passionate dialogue between eastern civilization and western civilization.

An important point of the Olympic spirit is to emphasize tolerance and understanding of cultural differences, mutual understanding, friendship and unity, get rid of the prejudice brought by their respective cultures, and "contribute to the establishment of a peaceful and better world". In the display of different cultures, what we see is not contradictions and conflicts, but a colorful cultural picture of human society, which makes cultural differences a driving force for people to communicate, rather than a closed barrier; Let contradictions become the driving force of mutual learning, not the inducement of mutual contempt.

China culture is highly compatible with the Olympic spirit. China culture stretches for more than 5,000 years. Paying attention to moral construction, emphasizing personal cultivation, and taking "harmony is the most important" and "respecting faith and cultivating friendship" as the basic principles in dealing with interpersonal and international relations, these excellent traditional cultural resources still have very important practical value in today's world. In the long-term development process, Chinese culture has shown great tolerance and integration with foreign cultures, and in the era of exchange, blending and confrontation between different cultures, it has increasingly shown its great charm.

In the 1990s, the theory of "Clash of Civilizations" put forward by American scholar Huntington had a great influence, but China's culture believed in "harmony without difference" and was multicultural and harmonious. Promoting cultural exchanges between the East and the West, enhancing mutual understanding and friendship between the people of China and other countries, and promoting peace and development of mankind are China's sincere contributions to the Olympic Games and the world.

In recent years, China proposed to build a "harmonious world", which is an extension of China's idea of building a harmonious society. The goal of a harmonious world reflects the development direction of the historical trend and conforms to the universal desire of human society. As the largest developing country in the world, China is the bounden duty of the Chinese nation to build a harmonious world with lasting peace and prosperity.

Hosting the Beijing Olympic Games is an important effort for China to achieve its own harmony and promote world harmony!