THE official film（官方电影）of the 2008 Olympics, Beijing Olympics, will begin shooting（拍摄）soon. The director is a famous Chinese director Gu Jun, who will be the second female director of the official film in the Olympic history. Bud Greenspan（巴德格林斯潘）will be the chief producer（首席制片人）. He has been the producer of eight official Olympic films.
Beijing Olympics is the 28th official film in Olympic history and the first official Chinese film for Olympics. It will record the important matches and special moments of some matches during the 2008 Games.
“Beijing Olympics will show the theme of ‘One world, one dream’ and will be valuable（珍贵的） historical material,” Gu said.
Sporting memorabilia“奥运大福娃“邮品套装将面世
CHINA National Philatelic Corporation（CNPC）（中国集邮总公司）will issue（发行） a set of memorabilia（纪念品） for stamp collectors with the name Aoyun Dafuwa.
The set consists of a scroll painting（画轴）, a stamp booklet（小本票）and a stamp designed as a folding screen（屏风式邮票）. The scroll painting is 693mm×353mm. There are 22 Fuwa showing different actions in the painting; the stamp booklet consists of five groups of Fuwa and the third kind of stamp has six panels, with 64 Fuwa on each panel. The main emblem（标志） of these will be the logo of the 2008 Games.
A CNPC official said that the set of memorabilia would appear on the market on June 22, at a price of 2380 yuan.
Keeping Beijing Orderly 市区古建明年将停止维修
TO help domestic（国内的） and foreign visitors have a better time in Beijing, no maintenance（维修） work will be done on historic buildings in the urban area（市区）, the official of Beijing Municipal Administration of Cultural Heritage（北京市文物局）said on May 20.
The Beijing government plans to use 600 million yuan to repair historic buildings in Beijing over the next five years. During the Olympics, the maintenance will focus on buildings in rural areas（郊区）around Beijing.
The official also said the administration will limit（限制）the number of visitors to historic buildings during the Games. It will also take some measures（采取措施）to protect the buildings. What’s more, all the historic buildings will have bilingual（双语的）signs before the 2008 Olympic Games.
Get involved in the Paralympics competition北京残奥会知识竞赛启动
THE Beijing Olympic Organizing Committee（北京奥组委）started a competition for the Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games（残奥会）on May 20. The purpose of the event is to let more people learn much more about the Paralympic Games, and to encourage more people to take part in assisting（协助） the Paralympic Games.
The competition will run for about three months. From May 20th to Sept 6th, people can visit www.beijing2008.cn, www.cdpf.org.cn and 2008.sohu.com to get involved in（参与）the competition. The information covers the basic knowledge of Paralympic Games, preparation work of Beijing Paralympic Games, sports for disabled people and the daily lives of China’s disabled people.
For more information about the competition, please call （010）84638502 or 84638301.
