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List of Beijing Olympic torchbearers to be released
Time:2008-03-13 Author:zhouyao

(BEIJING, March 12) -- The list of torchbearers for the Beijing Olympic Torch Relay is to be published shortly after the candidates' qualifications are confirmed.

The selection of the torchbearers has completed, as China's provinces, the Worldwide Olympic Partners, the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the Chinese Olympic Committee, the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad (BOCOG), the torch relay cities and the related national (regional) Olympic committees have completed thorough organizational and planning work as scheduled, the Beijing Daily reported.

On the Chinese mainland, the torchbearer candidates come from different industries, including model workers, scientists, exceptional entrepreneurs who have made outstanding contributions to the country's socio-economic development, as well as ordinary workers. They represent 56 ethnic groups and range in age from 14 to 93. The list also includes foreigners who have made prominent contributions to China's reform and opening drive; and compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan as well as overseas Chinese.

To ensure a fair, open and transparent selection process, the organizers have abided by the selection standards and operated through a procedure of personal application, organizational recommendations, panel assessment and public review to choose the most qualified persons for the mission of passing on the Olympic flame.

At present, the confirmation of overseas torchbearers is under way.

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