Houston Community News >> Beijing Mayor Promises High Caliber Olympics
2/1/2008 (AP)-- Beijing's new mayor took
office Saturday and promised the Summer Olympics would make China proud.
In brief remarks to reporters after being appointed by the legislature, Mayor Guo Jinlong twice mentioned the Olympics in August, underscoring the event's importance to the city and China's Communist Party leadership.
"We will successfully hold a high-caliber Olympics and Paralympics with distinguishing features, and the preparations and services should be done at the highest standard and with the best spirit so as to make a contribution to the realization of the 100-year dream of the Chinese nation," Guo said.
Guo did not elaborate on the dream, but leaders often talk of China's resumption of its historical status to world leader as a long-term objective.
Like his mentor, Chinese President Hu Jintao, Guo ran China's Himalayan region of Tibet for several years. He then took over as party chief of Anhui, a poor, overcrowded and mainly agricultural eastern province. Guo, who is 60, was selected acting mayor in November following a party leadership reshuffle.
In his remarks, Guo said he would carry out party policies and make Beijing a prosperous capital.
"We will strive to make Beijing one of the most thriving, civilized, harmonious and livable cities in the country," he said.
In brief remarks to reporters after being appointed by the legislature, Mayor Guo Jinlong twice mentioned the Olympics in August, underscoring the event's importance to the city and China's Communist Party leadership.
"We will successfully hold a high-caliber Olympics and Paralympics with distinguishing features, and the preparations and services should be done at the highest standard and with the best spirit so as to make a contribution to the realization of the 100-year dream of the Chinese nation," Guo said.
Guo did not elaborate on the dream, but leaders often talk of China's resumption of its historical status to world leader as a long-term objective.
Like his mentor, Chinese President Hu Jintao, Guo ran China's Himalayan region of Tibet for several years. He then took over as party chief of Anhui, a poor, overcrowded and mainly agricultural eastern province. Guo, who is 60, was selected acting mayor in November following a party leadership reshuffle.
In his remarks, Guo said he would carry out party policies and make Beijing a prosperous capital.
"We will strive to make Beijing one of the most thriving, civilized, harmonious and livable cities in the country," he said.
(Contributed by Associated Press)