From Xinhua via China Daily:
When it comes to asking not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country, look to the Chinese.
With a record number of volunteers battling for a role in the Olympics, Beijing officials are now fretting about what to tell applicants who don’t make the grade, or, just as likely, lost out to a government quota. More than 358,000 Chinese applied to volunteer at next year’s Olympic and Paralympic Games by the end of last month, six months after a recruitment drive began.
The resulting influx massively overshot the target quota of 70,000 for the Games, and 30,000 for the Paralympics, creating Olympic-size disappointment.
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