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Everything readyin Qingdao: MediaUpdated: 2008-04-18 07:29

Foreign reporters were impressed by Olympic co-host city Qingdao and praisedits Olympic preparation work during a visit there this week.

Most paid close attention to the city's environment, the advanced green energytechnology of the Olympic Sailing Center, as well as the Qingdao citizens' livingconditions.

"China has a wonderful sailing center in Qingdao and the preparation work hereis good," Khoshlahje from Iran's Islamic Republic News Agency said.

"The government has put free gym equipment all along the road and incommunities. Local residents can go out of their homes and exercise at anytime," Jacqueline Blackie, a media official from the New Zealand embassy, said.

Alizia Borsari from the Italian Radio and Television Broadcasting Co said: "Duringthe Olympic Games, we will dispatch at least 100 reporters to Beijing. And we willhave a live broadcast for the Beijing Olympic Games at that time," Borsari said.

"Besides sports events during the Games, we will also focus on China's society,economy, people's lives - everything related to the Beijing Olympic Games," shestressed.

"Some Western media gave many reports on boycotting the Beijing OlympicGames because they know little about China. They should come here and seeChina through their own eyes," Osman Erol, a representative correspondent ofTurkey's Cihan News Agency, said.

On Mondya and Tuesday, 19 reporters were in Qingdao to cover the city'spreparations for the Olympic sailing events.

China Daily

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