Together for a Shared Future

by Sun Weijia

The Chinese Olympic dream already found its way to print more than a century ago in the form of three questions： When would Chinese athletes debut in the Olympics？ When would Chinese athletes win an Olympic medal？ When would China host the Olympic Games？ The century-old dream eventually came true when China presented the “truly exceptional” Beijing Summer Olympics in 2008.

Now， the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics lifted the curtain in China. Yet China’s pursuit this time has been beyond a“wonderful and brilliant” or even “truly exceptional” Olympic Games. Beijing is pondering what kind of a lasting spiritual legacy China will contribute to the International Olympic Movement. As the world is undergoing profound changes unseen in a century， how will Beijing 2022 enrich the values of the International Olympic Movement， hence fulfilling its mission of fostering international solidarity and peace and promoting the development of healthier and fairer global governance？ This is a brand-new Olympic question that awaits the answer from Beijing 2022.

Each Olympic Games represents an opportunity for the host to present a grand vision of its national image to an attentive international community for several weeks straight. Fourteen years ago， Beijing 2008 was billed as “One World， One Dream” and delivered a vivid interpretation of “an open China embracing the world” and “a diverse world welcoming China.” Beijing 2008 epitomized China’s successful integration into the world with its widely recognized concepts and visions for human development and contributed greatly to a sound international environment that has aided China’s rapid development and sustained opening up in the subsequent 10-plus years.