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ISOSU: China 2008: The year of the rat
ISOSU
Issue date: 2/12/08 Section: Forum
Chinese are excited and preparing for this event. I went to Beijing during the winter break, and surprisingly saw lots of taxi drivers listening to English while driving.
They told me, "we are the window of China, and [the] Olympics could be a chance for ourselves. You never know!"
They are absolutely right. The potential revenue from the 2008 Olympics is estimated to be 300,000,000,000 RMB ($41,727,519,300 USD).
Beijing is expecting 2,000,000 Chinese tourists and 500,000 foreign tourists during the summer Olympics. Hotels, restaurants, transportation and any industries that are even just a tiny bit related to Olympics are getting ready to count the money.
Here, I would like to wish every Chinese and everyone here at OSU and in Corvallis a Happy Rat Year. I wish your every dream comes true at the end of this year. Last but not least, I wish everyone a healthy new year!
Yiging Ma, a graduate student in business and Xinfeng Liu, an undergraduate in wood science and engineering are part of ISOSU. The opinions expressed in ISOSU's column, which appears every Tuesday, do not necessarily represent those of the Daily Barometer staff. Ma and Liu can be reached at forum@dailybarometer.com.
They told me, "we are the window of China, and [the] Olympics could be a chance for ourselves. You never know!"
They are absolutely right. The potential revenue from the 2008 Olympics is estimated to be 300,000,000,000 RMB ($41,727,519,300 USD).
Beijing is expecting 2,000,000 Chinese tourists and 500,000 foreign tourists during the summer Olympics. Hotels, restaurants, transportation and any industries that are even just a tiny bit related to Olympics are getting ready to count the money.
Here, I would like to wish every Chinese and everyone here at OSU and in Corvallis a Happy Rat Year. I wish your every dream comes true at the end of this year. Last but not least, I wish everyone a healthy new year!
Yiging Ma, a graduate student in business and Xinfeng Liu, an undergraduate in wood science and engineering are part of ISOSU. The opinions expressed in ISOSU's column, which appears every Tuesday, do not necessarily represent those of the Daily Barometer staff. Ma and Liu can be reached at forum@dailybarometer.com.
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