Ministry of Foreign Affairs: The hospitable Chinese will cheer on athletes from all over the world and look forward to their success

On January 28, Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Zhao Lijian presided over a regular press conference.

A reporter asked a question: Yesterday, the Chinese sports delegation participating in the Beijing Winter Olympics was officially established, with a total of 387 Chinese delegations, including 176 athletes, which not only had the highest number of participants in history, but also achieved a historical breakthrough in the whole project. What is the Spokesperson's comment on this?

Source: Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Zhao Lijian said: I congratulate the official establishment of the Chinese sports delegation to the Beijing Winter Olympics. I noticed that the average age of the Athletes of the Winter Olympics in the Chinese sports delegation was 25.2 years old, full of youth and vitality. Among them are 20 athletes from 9 ethnic minorities, including Tibetans and Uyghurs, including 17-year-old skiers and veterans who have participated in the Winter Olympics four times, who are working hard and are ready to go all out to surpass themselves and realize their dreams of the Winter Olympics. These two days are the peak of the arrival of foreign delegations participating in the Beijing Winter Olympics in Beijing, and we will be a good host to provide warm and thoughtful all-round services for delegations from all over the world.

"I would also like to say that the hospitable Chinese will cheer and cheer for the athletes from all over the world, look forward to their tenacious struggle, continuous achievements, and wonderfully present the unique charm of ice and snow sports to the world, and look forward to their exchanges, friendship, and interpretation of the Olympic spirit of unity and fraternity, fair competition and mutual understanding." We believe that the gathering of delegations from all countries in Beijing to attend the Winter Olympics will surely write a new chapter for opening a new era of global ice and snow sports and enhancing the unity and friendship of peoples of all countries. Zhao Lijian said.