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One World, One Dream

The Olympic movement now has words to match its expectations for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.

Li Changchun, a member of the Standing Committee of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, on June 26 told an enthusiastic crowd gathered at Beijing Workers' Gymnasium for the beginning of the Third Beijing Olympic Cultural Festival that "One World, One Dream" would be the official slogan of the Beijing Games.

According to Liu Qi, president of the Beijing Organizing Committee for the 2008 Olympic Games (BOCOG), the slogan was chosen from among at least 210,000 suggestions submitted BOCOG by entrants from across China and around the world during the last six months.

BOCOG had hoped the focus of the new slogan would shift from the city itself to the Olympic Spirit of unity, friendship and progress and traditional Chinese cultural value of harmony and peace.

Liu said "One World, One Dream" perfectly meets their requirements.

"It conveys the noble ideal of people in Beijing as well as in China to share their civilization and create a bright future hand in hand with people from the rest of the world," he said.