XING Member Carries Olympic Torch

Meet Hong Xu – a XING member we got to know at the “Business People Cheer On the Olympics” online event held by XING China. This young man can look back on an impressive curriculum vitae that sees its culmination at this year’s Olympic Games in Beijing.

Having started his journey as an Olympic volunteer way back in 2007, he is a graduate student of RenMin University and teaches at the Humanistic Olympic Studies Center at the university. Now all the preparation, hard work and research over 11 years have paid off – as two of his dreams have come true at these Olympic Games in Beijing:

As well as being involved in proofreading the series of manuals published as training guides for all the volunteers at the Beijing Olympic Games, he was also selected as a volunteer for the China-Japan Friendship Hospital – the only medical institution designated to treating athletes, coaches and sports experts during the Games.

The highlight for him though was his honoured selection as a torchbearers, at the torch relay in Kashi in the Xinjiang province on June 18, 2008. We asked him how he felt at the time: “Although my part of the relay race was quite short, every pace I took felt like a glorious moment.” Congratulations from the XING team on receiving this honour!