100 candidate families to be disclosed soon

 

    The first stage of the "Olympic Families Tour Beijing" campaign will end on May 31 when the participating families will be short-listed to 100 -- 50 from China and 50 from abroad, the organizers said.
    Since the campaign started on April 9, a total of 1,972 families from 70 countries and regions have registered with the official website of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games to take part in it.

    They include 1,685 families from China's mainland, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, and 287 from abroad.

    In cooperation with China Mobile, the website (www.beijing2008.cn) launched the campaign to make it possible for ten families, five from China and five from the rest of the world, to tour Beijing and the co-host cities ahead of the Olympic Games.

    The campaign is unfolding in three successive stages with online users' participation, and the ten winning families will be picked for the tour to begin in August 2007, on the occasion of the one-year countdown to the Beijing Olympic Games.