The idea of Beijing Paralympic Games

Xinhuanet Beijing, September 5 th: Interpretation of the Beijing Paralympic Games concept by the Olympic theme: "Transcendence, integration and * * * enjoyment"

Xinhua News Agency reporter Xiao Chunfei

The Beijing Paralympic Games will be grandly opened on the 6th, which is a grand festival for disabled people all over the world and a precious humanistic baptism for people on the same planet.

"Transcendence, integration and enjoyment" is the concept of Beijing Paralympic Games, and it is also China's commitment and contribution to the global humanitarian cause. Wang Xinxian, chairman of the China Paralympic Committee, said that the core of "transcendence" is to surpass oneself and challenge the limit, "integration" is the way to achieve extensive unity and social harmony, and "* * * enjoyment" is to make disabled people and able-bodied people enjoy equal rights in the Olympic movement and social life.

"Transcendence": Dreams belong to everyone.

"Transcendence" means that disabled people gain courage and confidence and realize their own value by transcending themselves and challenging their limits, and then transcending physical and psychological obstacles. In this Paralympic Games, every disabled athlete has surpassed himself, and the improvement of sports quality and competitiveness in this Paralympic Games has also surpassed the level of the Paralympic Games.

At all times and in all countries, there are countless examples of indomitable transcendence in the face of bad luck: Zuo Qiu is blind and has "Mandarin"; The ruler of the revised version of Sun Tzu's Art of War; "Contemporary Paul" Zhang Haidi, the weak create miracles; Ding Xiaobing, a "one-armed hero", strongly moved China. ...

The Paralympic Games, which was born in 1960, undoubtedly provided a stage for the disabled to achieve self-transcendence and pursue self-worth.

1978 Zhang Xiaoling, who had his right thigh amputated due to tumor, started a grocery store to make a living. She happened to read the news about the first National Games for the Disabled in a scrap newspaper, rekindled her dream and started table tennis training. In order to dream, she created a legend through countless efforts: the Paralympic Games won five consecutive championships and became a veritable "table tennis queen" of the Paralympic Games. In 2008, she was 5 1 year old, but she still dreamed of "six consecutive championships" in the Paralympic Games.

Natalie Du Toit, a South African girl, won five gold medals at the Athens Paralympic Games, but she was not satisfied with it. She participated in the Beijing Olympic Games and competed with healthy people, and it was the hardest 10 km marathon swimming! She wants to prove that although she is missing a leg, she is not worse than others. ...

Approaching every well-known or unknown disabled athlete, we can deeply feel the majestic power that generate has built to overcome all difficulties and hardships, not to succumb to fate, and to bravely pursue dreams.

For all mankind, this transcendence of all kinds of impossible challenges and the challenge to the potential of life are valuable spiritual wealth.

"Integration": Paralympic Games let us deeply understand "people"

"Integration" embodies the perfect integration of Olympic values of "unity", "peace" and "harmony" with China's traditional concept of "harmony between man and nature". In the Paralympic Games, the sincere help of healthy volunteers and disabled athletes is spiritual integration, the passionate collision between spectators and athletes on the field is spiritual integration, and the social understanding of the Paralympic Games and the cause of the disabled is the extensive integration of disabled groups and the whole society.

There are 650 million disabled people in the world, accounting for10% of the global population; There are more than 83 million disabled people in China, accounting for 6.34% of the total population. Integration with society is the dream of this huge group-they take to the streets in wheelchairs and no longer attract strange eyes; Their blind sticks go forward and no longer encounter obstacles on the blind road; They are looking for a job, not hitting a wall everywhere. ...

In recent years, China has done a lot of work in integrating the disabled into society: building nursing service institutions, providing nursing services and employment training for the mentally, mentally and severely disabled, and enabling these most difficult disabled people to achieve employment through labor rehabilitation or even returning to society. Now the employment rate of disabled people has reached over 80%. In 2004, China Disabled Persons' Federation, Ministry of Construction and other relevant ministries and commissions named 12 national demonstration cities for barrier-free facilities construction. During the 11th Five-Year Plan period, China will also build 100 barrier-free cities nationwide, thus ensuring that the disabled can fully and effectively integrate into social life.

However, due to various reasons, there are still many shortcomings in understanding and communication between disabled people and healthy people, which makes "integration" face many obstacles. Jin Jing, a torchbearer for the disabled in China who is known as the "angel in wheelchair", once said: The disabled in China are reluctant to go out of their homes because their social acceptance needs to be improved, and sports can make them bravely go out of their homes and eventually integrate into society.

Paralympics undoubtedly provides such an opportunity: it not only comprehensively promotes the construction of barrier-free facilities in the host city, but also enables healthy people to understand the huge disabled population more comprehensively and deeply because of the profound humanistic feelings, praise for life and respect for everyone's dignity and value contained in this special sports event.

Samaranch, honorary president of the International Olympic Committee, said: "The disabled movement is a movement to awaken human conscience." At the Paralympic Games, unique individuals shocked and touched the world in their brave ways, and the world will find that both the able-bodied and the disabled actually live in the same world and pursue the same dream.

Judging from the intensity of competition, the competition of the Beijing Paralympic Games is far less than that of the just-concluded Beijing Olympic Games. However, the brilliance of generate humanity in the Paralympic Games, like countless moving scenes in the Olympic Games, has given mankind a deeper understanding of "people"!

"* * * Enjoy": * * * gather under the Paralympic flame and * * * enjoy the progress of China.

"* * * Enjoy" embodies the good wishes of disabled people and able-bodied people * * * to enjoy joy, friendship, dreams and success in the Olympic movement and social life, and * * * to enjoy the fruits of social civilization. Modern life is also being enjoyed by more and more disabled people, and the freedom and barrier-free rights in society can also be enjoyed equally by healthy people and disabled people.

In the traditional culture of China, the traditional virtue of helping the weak and the disabled has never stopped burning despite the vicissitudes. In the Book of Rites, it is put forward that "the old have an end, the strong have a use, the young have a strong point, and the lonely have a support"; From the ancient clan fields, Yici and Shantang to the five-guarantee households and welfare homes after the founding of New China, this light of human nature is reflected.

Since the reform and opening up, with the rapid economic development in China, the people of China have realized long-term love, not only to help, but also to meet the needs of self-morality and lifestyle.

It can be said that without the economic construction and cultural accumulation since the reform and opening up, it is impossible for China to run the Olympic Games well, and similarly, it is impossible to run the Paralympic Games well. Beijing Paralympic Games is a microcosm of China's efforts to build a harmonious society and make outstanding contributions to the global humanitarian cause, which emphasizes "* * * building * * *".

Now, the Beijing Paralympic Games is about to open. Disabled athletes from all over the world will gather under the Paralympic flame to enjoy the fruits of China's reform and opening up.

"Two Olympics, equally wonderful" is China's solemn commitment to the international community. Over the past seven years, preparations for the Beijing Paralympic Games and the Beijing Olympic Games have been carried out simultaneously. Before the opening ceremony, an excellent answer sheet was handed in: Beijing has become a "barrier-free city"-no matter the competition venues, Paralympic Village, or key scenic spots, hotels, restaurants, banks, hospitals and other public service facilities, it has achieved barrier-free access.

The 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China pointed out that it is necessary to "carry forward the humanitarian spirit and develop the cause of the disabled". In the history of the development of disabled people in China, the Beijing Paralympic Games will be a milestone.