BEIJING, Sept. 4 (Xinhuanet) -- While preparations for the Papralympic Games are still going on, strident collectors, souvenir-owners or mere keepsake-hunters are already busy searching for Olympic items.

    There lately appeared an exchange center or "flee market" specially for items related to Olympics: books, stamps, discs, trainers, balls, mascots and all other sorts. 

    Located a street to the west of the Paralympics Main Press Center in Beijing, it has become a place where visitors of different colors and ages rub shoulders daily.

    Unlike other flee markets, in this one, only items related to the Olympic Games are displayed and changed hands.

    To be even more special, the items in the market are usually bartered with other items, instead of being sold and bought in currencies, for the people visiting the market are not businessmen, but lovers of the Olympics.

    A collector surnamed Wang said that during the 2008 Beijing Olympics, he made acquaintance with many collectors both from home and abroad, and got many items he had been dreaming of through swaps.

    "I hope I will have good luck this time to meet more of my likes, and get more dreamed-of items before the Papralympics kick off," said a smiling Wang.