BEIJING, July 29-- Volunteering may be the most remarkable characteristic to embody the concept of "The People's Olympics." And the volunteers' activities are also most eye catching before the Games are open. In the following story, CCTV reporter Xu Zhaoqun shows how the volunteers are working and what impact they are making.

A volunteer explains how to use the Chinese traditional medicine to a madam at a service station in Beijing, capital of China, July 1, 2008. (Xinhua, File Photo) Photo Gallery>>>

    In tomorrow's series, our reporter Liu Ying will bring you more stories about how the local citizens endeavor to speak better english to show their hospitality to the guests from around the world.

    Finger-popping music, sexy costumes and the spectators' screaming all these make the cheerleader a fantastic job for almost every girl.

    but the volunteers trained to be cheerleaders may also be the ones who sweat most.

    Although the rehearsal has been carrying through for nearly half a year, it's hardly to see any smile in the face of the stage director.

    Acts like this is not an easy job for the unprofessional performers who are mainly university students.

    The efforts of the organizers and the performers to impress the guests with their passion and hospitality is obvious.

    however, cheerleaders are not easy to imitated. To encourage the spectators' participation, more volunteers are assigned to join the spectators and lead them to sing cheering songs and shout encourage slogans.

    It's really exciting to follow these energetic girls going through their moves. But I'm afraid I am too old to shout and dance like them for even five minutes. But that's beside the point. The important thing is that thousands of volunteers like them will help ignite sportsmanlike enthusiasm among millions of spectators.

    But after all, most volunteers don't have the chance to take part in such passionate activities.

    100,000 volunteers are stationed at the compition venues, MPC, IBC, and Olympic village to make silent contributions.

    Meanwhile, city volunteers can be seen thoughout the city.

    Despite the torrid weather in the summer Beijing, they are patroling along the streets to promote environmental protection measures, or stationed in hundreds of volunteer service spots, ready to provide help for any passers-by.

    some of the spots have been set up for a year or two, and more will be remained even after the games.

    The most frequent questions are from those who lost their ways.

    They may also need to deal with emergencies, like someone suffering heatstroke..

    And, visitors who don't speak Chinese will be glad to see them.

    French tourist said, "I speak no word of chinese at all. so it's good to meet someone who speak a bit of english."

    The 400,000 city volunteers are selected from more than two million local applicants.

    They are students, government employees, retire workers... some of them have had plenty of experience of volunteering.

    Jiao Wei, Youth League of Xicheng, Beijing, said, "The volunteer service has been recognized by the citizens nearby. The Olympic Games are bringing us a good opportunity to improve our work, and it also encourages more people to join us, even after the games."

    The application of the volunteers is a miniature of the Chinese people's enthusiam for the Olympic Games. More than a million applications for venue volunteer is a record in the Games' history.

    Volunteer, Beijing Olympics Call Center, said, "I speak Romanian language, my task is to answer the questions from the Romanian spectators."

    Volunteering programme has inspired many people's enthusiam not only for the games themselvs, but also for a wide range of social affairs. environment, traffic have all become volunteers' attention. Foreign language learning once again become a fashion among the citizens.

    Almos every volunteers expresses they are confident for the job, and would like to continue the job after the games.

    Li Liping, volunteer, Beijing Olympics Call Center, said, "...Before i came here I worked for a call center...I am already acustomed to this life, and I feel honored to be here. In fact I have never dreamed of that I can be so near to the Olympics, and I can work for the olympic, so I think we can solve all the problems and conquer all difficulties.."

    BOCOG officials say the volunteers far outnumber athletes, coaches and the media workers combined. The Beijing Games may very well set a Chinese record for volunteers. The concept is still fairly new in the country, but volunteering has been widely accepted by the Chinese. And it may very well be one of the most enduring legacies the Games brings to the country.

(Source: CCTV.com)