Ladies
and gentlemen:
good morning!
Today, my speech is "I am the part of the Green Olympics".
"Green Olympics" is one of the Three Themes of Beijing
2008 Olympic Games. Therefore the Beijing government had made
a great effort in order to protect the environment, build
more "Green project", keep the ecological balance,
push the recycling economy, and protect the water resource.
But if only the government take the action to realize the
Green Olympics in 2008, it's not enough. As a Beijing high
school student, we should play an active role in the actions
aimed at the realization of Green Olympics. So we should start
it from ourselves, our family, our friends and other people
around us.
In 2001, in the Moscow world trade center, when the former
chairman of the International Olympic Committee, Samaranch
had said: "Beijing, China!" As a Beijing citizen,
as a Chinese, I had a great joy for my city, for my home country
from the bottom of my heart! But after the excitement that
Beijing had been succeed in the race to host the Olympic Game
in 2008. I started to worry about the dusty air, the sandstorm,
the polluted rivers and lakes; the streets without any green
and whether we could successfully host the Olympic Games in
2008.
Four years later, today, we can see 229 day blue sky in one
year, we can hardly catch a glimpse of the sandstorm, groups
of wild duck comes back to Shishahai Lake in the spring, and
all the streets are dressed in green. All these make me deeply
believe that Beijing will surely succeed in 2008! And all
these achievements are not only the result that made by the
Beijing government, but also by the 14 millions Beijing citizens.
As one of the 14 millions normal citizens, I am also adding
my contribution to our Green Olympic!
I used to have a habit, which is to take two longtime showers
every day. It was a big waste of water. One day, I saw a piece
of news in Beijing Daily that about the lack of the Beijing
water resource. It's said every year Beijing use up about
3.7 billions cubic meter of water. But Miyun reservoir only
contains 0.77 billions cubic meter of water, and Guanting
reservoir only contains 0.19 billion cubic meter of water.
This shows we are really short of water now! After reading
this news, I start to change my habit, and only take one quick
shower each day. I have calculated that if everyone economizes
one cubic meter of water during they are taking the shower
in a month; the Beijing citizens will economize 14 million
cubic meter of water in only one month! In 2004, as the Beijing
Irrigation Apartment reported that since 2001 Beijing has
succeeded in the application of hosting the Olympic game in
2008. Beijing government had started 26 programs in order
to economize the water resource. After 3 years doing this,
these programs have saved 0.437 billions cubic meter of water.
It's as big as a four-sized Huairou reservoir! And now, in
my daily life, in my family, we always think about protecting
the environment and saving the resource whenever we doing
what. The batteries, the aged newspapers, the empty glass
bottles and all the recyclable garbage, we will classify them
then put them in different trash cans; we make the most use
of the nature light and shut off the electrical light conveniently;
and when we shopping, we will bring a nylon bag with us instead
of plastic bags; during the feast, I do not send any card
in order to protect the forest resource; after washing the
clothes, we won't dump the used water but use it to flash
the toilet… All in all, we should start from every little
thing around us to truly realize the "Green Olympic".
I still remember clearly that in the Athens 2004 Olympic Games,
when Liu Xiang stood up on the award platform, he was wearing
a coronet, which made by olive branch. Does this green olive
branch stand for the "Green Olympic"? Olive branch
is the symbol of peace, and the Olympic Game is the carrier
of the "peace". We should not just simply think,
"No war is the meaning of peace". "Nature and
human beings living in harmony" is also the root meaning
of "peace". "Save the resource, protect the
environment", this kind action of pursuing "Nature
and human beings living in harmony", is the way that
shows the core of the Olympian spirit. So we say, peace is
the spirit of Olympic, Olympic is the carrier of peace, and
"Green Olympic" means that we are standing in a
higher platform to seek the peace.
So the "Green Olympic" should be started from every
little things in our daily life, start form me, from the people
that around me. Express the spirit of Olympic, publicize the
theme of "Green Olympic", and let Beijing really
reaches the "Green Olympic" in 2008. This is the
responsibility of anyone who loves peace. And it is also the
responsibility of our Beijing high school students!
Thank you!
Ladies
and gentlemen:
