Palms together, a tender smile.
Thai people showed their most famous countenance to the world through the window of the ongoing World University Games here and Beijing is also trying to turn itself a place of smile when the Olympics comes..
The Chinese here found that the "Thai smile" from the Land of Smile could be an experience for staging a successful Olympiad in Beijing.
"I have been most impressed by their smile. No matter strangers or not, they will smile to me, filling me with warmth," said Zhang Xiaoyong, a Beijing Olympics volunteer working for the Universiade here.
"Immediately I feel close to the people and to the country," he added.
Zhang is among the 12 future Beijing Olympics volunteers managing to join the Universiade volunteer force in a bid to accumulate experience for their big job in August next year.
The Chinese capital launched a "Smile Beijing" campaign in 2005, calling on its residents and future volunteers to show smiling faces to the world. In early 2007, a set of five-colored wrist bands for Beijing Olympics volunteer program were launched, indicating that the Olympic volunteers will be warm-hearted, polite, honest and protecting the environment, and they will always wear smiles.
"I think the Thai smile will be one of my experience here. Now I understand how important it is for people to smile," Zhang said. "The bonding power of a smile is huge and makes visitors feel at home."
"The most important of all, you can feel that they are giving you hearty smiles. It is the sincerity that works behind the smile, " he added.
Zhang's friend Liu Lin has started to apply her experience to her work here.
"Our main purpose here is to learn. We will show the world Beijing Olympics volunteers' smile to the world," she said.
Source: Xinhua
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