Torch Relay Flashes by Great Wall

Apr 18-2013   

 

--BiMBA Dean and Alumni Participates in Olympic Torch Relay Together

 

The Olympic torch whisked along the Great Wall for the first time on July 7,2008, when torchbearers ran across the six-century-old Jiayu Pass at the western end of the 5,130-km wall. Professor Zhuang Yang, the foreign Dean of BiMBA, and Yuan Hao, the vice president of Gansu province and also the former student of BiMBA, took part in this significant Torch Relay together on the Great Wall.

 

As the No. 203 torchbearer, Professor Zhuang Yang hold the torch and climbed up to the Great Wall. Then he met No. 204 torchbearer Yuan Hao on the Great Wall. They raise their hands during the torch relay excitedly. Yuan Hao is the vice president of Gansu province and also one of the first Western MBA alunimi of BiMBA.

 

The Great Wall was the last part of the relay in Jiayuguan, a nearby city and the second stop of the three-day, three-city relay in Northwestern Gansu province. The province's relay will end in the capital of Lanzhou today.

 

Although the pass was built as early as 1372, Jiayuguan materialized just 50 years ago as a result of the "Great Leap Forward" - a 1958-60 initiative to utilize China's vast population to rapidly transform the country into a modern, industrialized society.

 

Gallery: BiMBA Torchbearers on Great Wall >>http://en.bimba.org/article.asp?articleid=3010

Video Clip of Torch Relay >> http://www.bimba.org/ips/article.asp?articleid=6040