Chen Jiawei, a flag bearer from Nantong city of Jiangsu Province was thrust to the spotlight at the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics.
At the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics, Chen Jiawei, a young man from Nantong, and his classmates formed a flag-bearer performance team to undertake the task of holding and waving the flag.
Chen Jiawei, 25, graduated from Nantong Middle School and is now a graduate student at the People's Public Security University of China.
As one of the 91 flag bearers at the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics, Chen Jiawei held the flag of the Republic of Romania.
The flagpole of the flag bearer is a three-meter-long solid metal flagpole and weighs more than 10 kilograms.
Behind the neat and uniform movements are thousands of high-intensity training sessions over four months.
The opening of the Winter Olympics coincides with the Spring Festival holiday. For Chen Jiawei, this is the first Spring Festival that he missed the Chinese New Year reunion dinner with his family.
Wang Aiping, Chen Jiawei's Mother
Although he can't go back to Nantong
for the Chinese New Year
but I think this is the best gift
for us in the New Year
At the Winter Olympics, about 1,200 Winter Olympic torchbearers came from all over the country, including one from Taicang, a county-level city in Suzhou.
On February 3, Kang Yan from Jiangsu Procter & Gamble Co., Ltd., as the 31st torchbearer of the Beijing Winter Olympics, delivered the torch in the Yangyuan Nihewan Archaeological Site Park in Zhangjiakou, Hebei Province.
65 torchbearers participated in this 4.58-kilometer relay line. Kang Yan was selected as the torchbearer, and she was very excited and proud.
Feeling extremely excited and proud, Kang Yan was still immersed in the feeling of running with the torch after completing the mission.
Kang Yan said she is looking forward to the success of Chinese athletes in the Winter Olympics.
