The Red Cross Society of China (RCSC) will provide emergency rescue training and health knowledge for volunteers for the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008, according to the organization on Friday.

Agreed by the Beijing's Olympic Organizing Committee, the RCSC will have one first-aid person for every 80 to 150 volunteers.

Between 2002 to 2005, the RCSC trained a total of 9.605 million first-aid people, 49.6 percent of whom worked in fields of public security, construction, mining, railway, health, civil aviation, tourism, power and transportation.

By 2010, the RCSC aims to train one first-aid person for every 15 to 300 residents in big cities and two to three in every grassroot Red Cross branch at township and community levels, said Jiang Yiman, vice-president of the RCSC.

A RCSC emergency rescue team was also set up at Friday's meeting, which aims to offer emergency rescue when major disasters take place at home and abroad.

Source: Xinhua