The only foreign volunteer: will tell the world with personal experience if China does a good job in the He Winter Olympics

Ukrainian volunteers: I will tell the world how China can run the Winter Olympics with personal experience

Beijing, 31 Jan (China News Service) -- Ukrainian volunteers: Will tell the world how China can successfully host the Winter Olympics with their own experience

China News Service reporter Guo Chaokai

The 2nd basement floor of the main media center of the Beijing Winter Olympics, the IOC News Desk of less than 5 square meters, is where Ukrainian Beijing Winter Olympic volunteer Li Li often stays. In the past few days of entering the closed loop of the Winter Olympics, she is proficient in Five Languages: Chinese, English, French, Russian and Ukrainian, and has solved many problems for media reporters from all over the world.

Among the 536 volunteers in the main media center, Li Xiao was an ordinary and special one. The general is that she is from Beijing university like other volunteers and has a passion for volunteer service; the special thing is that she is the only foreign Winter Olympic volunteer, blonde hair, blue eyes, warm sunshine, people are eye-catching.

When it comes to participating in the Beijing Winter Olympics as a foreign student, "in fact, there is still a sense of glory, because I am also proud of China." Li Xiao said that after coming to China for more than 8 years, his personal growth has been integrated into China's development, from the Summer Olympics to the Winter Olympics, China has come step by step in these years, and its growth and progress can be clearly seen.

The 21-year-old has traveled to more than 40 countries and regions. In 2009, Li and his family came to China, and the family was fascinated by the customs and lifestyle of Chengdu, and in 2013 they chose to move to Chengdu and completely stayed in China.

Eight years ago, this Reiki girl named "Nika" couldn't understand a word of Chinese. "Li Xi" is the Chinese name she gave herself, "'遐' has the meaning of far away, I come from distant Ukraine", and I also hope that the "Chinese story" she tells and records can be "famous".

Before stepping on Chinese soil, Li And many foreigners still had a "country with a five-thousand-year-old civilization", and after living in China for many years, she found that ancient culture was only one side of China, and "the current China is also full of modernization".

In the past 8 years, from Southwestern University of Finance and Economics to Communication University of China, from Chengdu to Beijing, Li Li has been completely integrated into China, she loves Sichuan cuisine, Cantonese cuisine, Hanfu and mahjong. Today, she not only speaks standard Mandarin, but also Sichuan dialect, and can even skillfully use popular Internet language.

In 2020, Li Wei learned that volunteers were recruited for the Beijing Winter Olympics, and with more than 10 years of volunteer service experience, she did not hesitate to sign up, and finally got her wish after layers of selection and multiple rounds of training. Before entering the closed loop of the Winter Olympics on January 18, Li Xiao sent a special Weibo: "I am about to go to the Winter Olympics to contribute my strength, excited and nervous."

As the world's first "double Olympic city", the world's attention has recently been focused on Beijing.

"The whole world is curious about how China did it?" "And my biggest advantage is that I'm here at this moment." Li said that to participate in the Beijing Winter Olympics, a global sports event, during the epidemic, she will "tell more foreigners with their own experience what happened here, Chinese how to run the Winter Olympics well."

In fact, in china for 8 years, Li has been actively acting as a "cultural bridge" for chinadialogue in his own way. In the early years, she had caused a lot of heated discussions with a number of different styles of art photos, and one of the hanfu photos made her "out of the circle". Today, she has 130,000 followers on Weibo and is a well-known "Internet celebrity". In recent years, she has traveled to various parts of China to collect and shoot, telling the real "China story" from the perspective of foreigners. During the Winter Olympics, she plans to use Vlog to record the stories in the closed loop.

January 31 is the Chinese New Year's Eve of the Chinese lunar calendar. Chinese there is a custom of eating dumplings on Chinese New Year's Eve night, and Li Xiao said that he will also follow the customs and taste dumplings at the restaurant of the main media center. On this day, she will participate in the volunteer offline Spring Festival Gala as a host, and spend a special Chinese New Year with like-minded volunteer friends in the closed loop of the Winter Olympics. (End)