During the Beijing Winter Olympic Games 758 city volunteer service sites around the Olympic stadiums, winter sports venues, key communities (villages), bus and subway stations as well as the 2022 Beijing Media Center will be all put into service until the end of the Beijing Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games.So far, volunteers from the Communication University of China (hereinafter referred to as CUC)have started their work.Coincided with the Spring Festival, the Winter Olympics will leave “exclusive memories” for these university students.

A volunteer searches for signals with a device that registers nucleic acid information at a nucleic acid test site in the Communication University of China, Jan.26.

CUC volunteer Huang Siyi works at the Winter Olympics Book Corner in the cultural exhibition area, Feb. 1, Beijing Media Center.

This is the last year of our undergraduate study in Beijing, and we hope we would grow more competent by serving the Winter Olympics as volunteers.”

“It would be an ordinary winter holiday if going home or being an intern, while volunteering for the Winter Olympics makes it different.”

Huang Han and Huang Siyi, both senior students at CUC, will leave Beijing in June for postgraduate studies. They both participated in the celebration of China’s 70th National Day in 2019.We were in the last square, the thirty-sixth square, called ‘Long live the Motherland’. Huang Siyi blurted out the numbers and names. I made a lot of friends at that time and felt very happy. I was longing for another group activity.

A  volunteer was having a video call with her loved ones, Jan. 31, CUC.

On the blackboard in an activity classroom there were all elements of the Winter Olympics and Spring Festival, Jan. 26, CUC.

As volunteers for the Winter Olympics, they are supposed to stay in Beijing all the time; and they hardly left campus because of the COVID-19 pandemic.Before officially starting the volunteer work for the Winter Olympics, they also worked temporarily as volunteers at the weekly nucleic acid test site on campus.

In the run-up to the Spring Festival, Huang organized some Olympic volunteers and student interns to write 300 pieces of 福(a Chinese character implies good fortune) and sent them to the university staff who stayed on the campus during the winter holiday.

Huang Siyi was sending out the “福” characters, a passing staff got a rare style of it –“招财进宝”(implies to bring in wealth and treasure), Jan. 28.

I am not really homesick because I send messages to my parents every day. In just 4 days, Huang Han has received two boxes of snacks from her boyfriend.In her free time, she took a few videos of unpacking and sent them to her boyfriend and parents, also shared funny stories she experienced.

A volunteer was singing passionately to enliven the atmosphere. On that day, the university prepared a New Year's Eve dinner and entertainment for volunteers, Jan. 31, CUC canteen.

Huang Han (lower left) was watching the Spring Festival Gala with her friends, with a variety of fruit and snacks on the table, Jan. 31, CUC dormitory.

On the first day of China’s Lunar New Year, Huang Han and Huang Siyi, together with other volunteers, entered the 2022 Beijing Media Center and officially started their volunteer work for the Beijing Winter Olympic Games.Although they had come here for training before, it was the first day that the Media Center was officially opened to the public. The presence of media reporters and staff was a novelty to them.

The photo wall at the Volunteer Home, Feb.1, Beijing Media Center.

Huang Han serves at the comprehensive service desk in the lobby on the first floor, and she is responsible for answering the questions from the media staff. I pretty like my job and I enjoy the communication with people. This position requires constant image maintenance, because this is the first smile that Chinese and foreign journalists see when they enter the Media Center, and a lot of media will take pictures here, she adds.

Huang Han (second from left) and Nie Wenxin (first from left), were receiving consultation from journalists at the entrance comprehensive service desk, Feb.1, 2022 Beijing Media Center.

Huang Siyi, who serves at the book stand, said I enjoy my work and the collective atmosphere of cooperation, trust and contribution.As the indispensable part of the Winter Olympics, every volunteer plays the role as a cog in a machine, injecting vitality into the Winter Olympic Games.

Huang Siyi,serves the readers and sorting the books of the Winter Olympics Book Corner in the cultural exhibition area, Feb.1, 2022 Beijing Media Center.

February 4 is the opening day of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games and the first official operation day of the 2022 Beijing Media Center. Volunteers will grow with the Winter Olympics, enjoy their own exclusive experience, and write their own exclusive memories of the Winter Olympics.

CUC Volunteers were writing their Winter Olympic service scheme in media working area of the 2022 Beijing Media Center, February 1, 2022.

Translator:Wu Hao

Proofreader :Lu Xiang  Zhao Shuo  Hou Fuli

Editor:Zheng Shuyu

Advisor:Zhang Xu