It is not surprising that we do not want to host the Olympics again, in 2008, when we hosted the Olympics in our country, the foreign media was fiercely attacked, and repeatedly caused problems, and people were physically and mentally injured!
The International Olympic Committee president has been to China three times in five years.He has come to China, and everyone knows that the 2036 Olympics need a reliable host.
However, he did not get the anticipated warm response.The country that once had been able to overwhelm all for an Olympic Games, now appears to be unusually calm.
This quietness surprised many people.Why do people who celebrated the Olympics in front of the TV seem to be no longer concerned?
In fact, hosting the Olympics is becoming an increasingly uncompensated thing, which has long been a global consensus. Montreal has completed the Olympics and has not paid off its debt for 30 years.The Rio Olympics lost $2 billion, while Tokyo's loss has reached an astonishing $21 billion.
After reading so many lessons from the past, any country has to calculate repeatedly before deciding to bid. Of course, we have an account of ourselves.
The total cost of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games is close to 300 billion yuan. The Bird's Nest and Water Cube have indeed earned enough face for the Chinese people, but the subsequent maintenance costs are also quite high. The annual electricity bill of the Bird's Nest alone is as high as tens of millions of yuan.
But the account of money can be settled clearly, and the account in my heart is even more difficult to level. When we embraced the world with sincerity, the response we received was not always kind.
Some Western media are critical of us with inherent prejudice. When the Olympic torch was passed overseas, they organized protests and created chaos. News reports are also full of various smears.
The feeling that you try your best and give the best, but you are still treated coldly, misunderstood and denied, makes many people taste the indifference and double standards behind the so-called "international standards" for the first time.
After more than ten years, we have thought more clearly. The country's money should be spent wisely. Now, our direction is very clear, with high-speed rail networks all over the country, 5G base stations connecting urban and rural areas, and aerospace projects exploring deep space. These projects are related to the foundation of the country's development in the next few decades, and they are really improving our own hard power.
What's more, today's Olympic Games is no longer just a mere sports competition. Various complex factors inside and outside the stadium always make people feel uncomfortable.
The size of table tennis balls has been changed again and again, the diving rules have become more and more complex, and the weightlifting level, which we have an absolute advantage, has been cancelled at any time. This is easy to remind people of the various rumors about money and politics behind Beijing's first Olympic bid in 1993.
The situation is similar now. Russian athletes cannot compete in the name of the country, and doping testing standards are often controversial.
Just before the Paris Olympics, the Chinese swimming team underwent more than two hundred tests in ten days, with an average of five to seven tests each day.
The most fundamental reason is that China itself has changed.In 2008, we really needed the Olympics.It was a business card given to the world, and we want to tell everyone with a great event that China is coming.
Today, the situation is completely different. China no longer needs to prove itself through a sport. More than half of the world’s high-speed railway tracks are laid out on China’s mainland, with millions of 5G base stations connecting cities and countrysides.
When a country is truly powerful, it is no longer necessary to rely on the applause of the outside to confirm its value. The attention of people naturally shifts from “how to do a feast that makes the world wonderful” to “how to make people’s days more real” and “how to make the country go more steadily and further”.
In the future, we may hold more down-to-earth individual events, or use the money to build more fitness venues that ordinary people can use at any time.
Information source: "Looking Back at 2008: The" Unparalleled "Beijing Olympic Games", Guangming.com, August 11, 2025.
The International Olympic Committee president has been to China three times in five years.He has come to China, and everyone knows that the 2036 Olympics need a reliable host.
However, he did not get the anticipated warm response.The country that once had been able to overwhelm all for an Olympic Games, now appears to be unusually calm.
This quietness surprised many people.Why do people who celebrated the Olympics in front of the TV seem to be no longer concerned?
In fact, hosting the Olympics is becoming an increasingly uncompensated thing, which has long been a global consensus. Montreal has completed the Olympics and has not paid off its debt for 30 years.The Rio Olympics lost $2 billion, while Tokyo's loss has reached an astonishing $21 billion.
After reading so many lessons from the past, any country has to calculate repeatedly before deciding to bid. Of course, we have an account of ourselves.
The total cost of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games is close to 300 billion yuan. The Bird's Nest and Water Cube have indeed earned enough face for the Chinese people, but the subsequent maintenance costs are also quite high. The annual electricity bill of the Bird's Nest alone is as high as tens of millions of yuan.
But the account of money can be settled clearly, and the account in my heart is even more difficult to level. When we embraced the world with sincerity, the response we received was not always kind.
Some Western media are critical of us with inherent prejudice. When the Olympic torch was passed overseas, they organized protests and created chaos. News reports are also full of various smears.
The feeling that you try your best and give the best, but you are still treated coldly, misunderstood and denied, makes many people taste the indifference and double standards behind the so-called "international standards" for the first time.
After more than ten years, we have thought more clearly. The country's money should be spent wisely. Now, our direction is very clear, with high-speed rail networks all over the country, 5G base stations connecting urban and rural areas, and aerospace projects exploring deep space. These projects are related to the foundation of the country's development in the next few decades, and they are really improving our own hard power.
What's more, today's Olympic Games is no longer just a mere sports competition. Various complex factors inside and outside the stadium always make people feel uncomfortable.
The size of table tennis balls has been changed again and again, the diving rules have become more and more complex, and the weightlifting level, which we have an absolute advantage, has been cancelled at any time. This is easy to remind people of the various rumors about money and politics behind Beijing's first Olympic bid in 1993.
The situation is similar now. Russian athletes cannot compete in the name of the country, and doping testing standards are often controversial.
Just before the Paris Olympics, the Chinese swimming team underwent more than two hundred tests in ten days, with an average of five to seven tests each day.
The most fundamental reason is that China itself has changed.In 2008, we really needed the Olympics.It was a business card given to the world, and we want to tell everyone with a great event that China is coming.
Today, the situation is completely different. China no longer needs to prove itself through a sport. More than half of the world’s high-speed railway tracks are laid out on China’s mainland, with millions of 5G base stations connecting cities and countrysides.
When a country is truly powerful, it is no longer necessary to rely on the applause of the outside to confirm its value. The attention of people naturally shifts from “how to do a feast that makes the world wonderful” to “how to make people’s days more real” and “how to make the country go more steadily and further”.
In the future, we may hold more down-to-earth individual events, or use the money to build more fitness venues that ordinary people can use at any time.
Information source: "Looking Back at 2008: The" Unparalleled "Beijing Olympic Games", Guangming.com, August 11, 2025.