For many who don't have the opportunity to serve for the Games, watching the competition will be another way to show support. But this time, the Chinese may less focus on the gold medal counts.
Sheer sporting success is far from enough for China which is trying to help the general public enjoy sports and good health.
The government encourages people from all walks of life to practice physical exercises during work intervals, setting up fitness facilities in residential communities and organizing mass sport activities.
There is still a long way to go in the development of mass sport, as Liu Peng, head of the State General Administration of Sport put it. The direction, however, is always towards the well-being of the people, just as Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said in his report to the National People's Congress this March, "Everything we do we do to ensure that people live a happier life with more dignity and make our society fairer and more harmonious."
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