At 16:12 Monte Carlo time on September 23, IOC President Samaranch solemnly announced at the Louis II Stadium that the winner was BJ.

The Olympic flame will be lit in Beijing in seven years! After a century of vicissitudes, the modern Olympic Games finally came to the ancient oriental civilization with the largest population in the world, and the Chinese dream of an Olympic century has finally become a reality.

The fire trees and silver flowers never sleep, and Z Xi came to the square to celebrate with people. People couldn't contain their excitement and hugged each other. The girls of the girl choir who participated in the large-scale performance of BJ's Olympic bid couldn't help but hug each other and cry excitedly.

At the moment when President Samaranch announced that BJ had won the right to host the 2008 Olympic Games, there was jubilation on South J Road, the place where the crowd of people in Shanghai was most concentrated, and the song of "True Heroes" resounded in the square. The young workers of the Hujiang Motorcycle and Automobile Association held up a banner saying "Resolutely support BJ's bid for the Olympic Games" and shouted "Long live China!" Long live BJ! ”

Thousands of people gather on the Bund, and it's as lively as it is during the day. The shops on the pedestrian street were supposed to close at 10 p.m., but many of the shops still had their doors open and the crowd walked through the pedestrian street of South J Road like a parade.

On the China Square in Guangdu, people cheered BJ's successful bid for the Olympic Games; In front of the post office in South J City, it was crowded with citizens who came to buy the commemorative envelope of the successful Olympic bid. BJ's partner city for the 2000 Olympic Games, Binhai City in Dong Son Province, also entered a sleepless night, with Samaranch's announcement, many people hugged each other and cried, firecrackers rang out, and colored paper flew in unison. People shouted in unison, "Long live BJ." Long live the Marina ......

The people of the whole country cheered for BJ. Celebrate with China!

As the base camp of the "Bidding Committee", the posters and flags of the Olympic bid have long been fluttering on the streets of Hong Kong, and the atmosphere of the Olympic bid is full of enthusiasm.

On this night, the large-scale activities of all walks of life in Hong Kong to support BJ's Olympic bid were overwhelming, with lion dancing and folk songs and dances with traditional Chinese characteristics. The wonderful performances of different sports groups, as well as the TV curtain wall set up in large, medium and small squares to broadcast the results of the Olympic bid voting live became the focus of the event.

A large-scale multi-party show called "Live in Hong Kong, Cheer for the Whole People" was held at the open-air plaza of Kowloon Park, with the participation of thousands of citizens. Witness this historic moment. At the same time, Times Square in Causeway Bay and Tsim Sha Tsui Cultural Centre on the shoreside of Victoria Harbour also set up large screens to broadcast the content of the evening live.

Citizens congratulated each other ecstatically, and a CUHK student who was impassioned at the "June 4" rally a few months ago said excitedly in an interview with reporters: "BJ is representing China in the Olympic bid, and the success of the Olympic bid will certainly bring significant overall benefits to the whole of China, and Hong Kong, as a sub-venue, will also benefit a lot from it." The success of the Olympic bid is the success of BJ. It is China's success and Hong Kong's success! ”

It doesn't matter left, center, or right. On the issue of BJ's successful bid for the Olympic Games, there was a striking unanimity.

Manchester lost, and the last governor of Hong Kong was not happy, but he could not stand on the opposite side of public opinion at this time, and could only make a speech congratulating BJ at the first time. Immediately afterwards, the Acting Postmaster General of the Hong Kong Government announced that in order to celebrate the success of BJ's bid to host the 2000 Olympic Games and to celebrate Hong Kong's winning of the right to host the equestrian events of the 2000 Olympic Games, Hongkong Post will issue a special stamp with the same design theme as the emblem of BJ's bid for the Olympic Games on September 14.

The Golden Lotus venue in Macau was also jubilant.

All the people followed the broadcast TV and shouted, we won! We won! A man in his 50s danced in the crowd. Some people even threw beer bottles on the ground and used them as firecrackers.

Taiwan's TVBS TV and Era Channel will broadcast live from 22 o'clock, accompanied by the corresponding pictures of BJ and Monte Carlo, and invite experts to explain the scene. After the results were announced, the two channels barely broadcast advertisements, but continued to cover BJ's celebration party, and also broadcast footage and speech by Mr. Wu Ching-kuo, a representative of Taiwan's Olympic Committee, congratulating Ho Chung-kuo......

However, the charter on the plane back to Hong Kong knew nothing about all this. From the time he boarded the plane at Nice airport, he had been covered with a blanket, half-lying on a leather seat, staring out of the porthole.

"Jan, is the boss okay?" This has never been done before, and Lin Zhiguo is a little worried.

Jan Joseph glanced back at the glazed bylaws and muttered, "Maybe I'm worried about the outcome of the vote, or maybe I'm thinking about Madame, Xiao Han, and Qingqing." ”

Leaving at the last moment, don't you really have the courage to face it, Lin Zhiguo was silent for a while, then suddenly got up and said, "I'll ask the pilot, they should have received the news." ”

"No need," Jan Joseph grabbed him by the arm and shook his head, "If the boss wants to know, he will let us ask." What we have to do is make sure that he is safe, and if he can not disturb the pilot, he should not disturb the pilot. ”

In fact, what the charter wants is really related to the Olympic bid.

In the past two and a half months of cooperation with the "Olympic Bidding Committee", he has always kept a distance from BJ, and unconsciously has a feeling of "being poor is good for himself, and reaching is for the world", and he always can't help but want to do something for this country and this nation.

As for the Olympic bid, he believes that China needs this opportunity to leap its economic development to a new height, and reform also needs to inject new blood to make economic development have new stimuli and vitality, and the right to host the Olympic Games will undoubtedly provide China with such an opportunity.

Because it brings a country not only a kind of glory and trust from the world, but also means the emergence and existence of greater business opportunities and profit space. It can stimulate the economic development of a country and a region in another aspect, and at the same time make a country and a region recognized by the world.

But with the success of BJ's bid for the Olympics, the history he knew suddenly became unrecognizable. He suddenly had an inexplicable fear of the future, not knowing whether this was a good thing or a bad thing.

He could imagine how jubilant and proud the Chinese people in China and the world would be at this moment. But what about after rejoicing, excited, and proud?

The higher you climb. The more painful the fall. He could hardly imagine that if there was a second, third, or even fourth incident that was even more inadequate and more aggrieved than the "Yinhe incident," how much damage it would deal to the national self-confidence that had been greatly inflated by the success of the Olympic bid.

History has changed, and he doesn't think he can accurately "predict" it again, and even if he can, he doesn't think he can help as much as he did in dealing with the "Galaxy incident".

What's more, he knows exactly what kind of path China will take next.

With the rapid development of the economy, a series of things that he does not want to see, or even hate, will appear one after another. The success of BJ's Olympic bid will undoubtedly accelerate this process.

The more he thought about it, the more depressed he became, the more depressed he became, and after thinking about it, he simply didn't want to, because it was in vain to think about it, and it was in vain to say it, it was better to live in the moment and do something in the field he was familiar with and could control.

His wife and children were waiting for him, and he suddenly became energetic. Rubbing his sour neck, he smiled and asked, "Zhiguo, what time is it?" ”

This question really stopped Lin Zhiguo. After staring at the watch for a while, he said embarrassedly: "We flew for about 14 hours, Hong Kong time should be around 9:30 a.m. on September 24, and you can get home in two hours at most, are you hungry, do you want to eat more?" ”

"No, save your stomach and go home for lunch."

Lin Zhiguo couldn't help asking: "Mr. Zhang, don't you want to know the voting results at all?" ”

The charter smiled and asked, "You know?" ”

Lin Zhiguo shook his head, and Jan-Joseph still lay in the airline seat with his eyes closed as if he hadn't heard anything.

There was no flight attendant on this flight, and I wanted to know that I could only ask them to go to the cockpit and ask, and the charter was the same as Jan Joseph, who took flight safety more than anything else, looked at him, and then looked at the big bear behind him, and said with a smile: "No hurry, anyway, I will know in two hours at most." In addition, I have been out for so long and have participated in such meaningful activities, so I can't go home empty-handed. I remember that I still have some Olympic souvenirs left in my bag, and I will bring a few with me when I go back. ”

Those cloisonne and glazed handicrafts are very exquisite, very sought-after in Monte Carlo, dozens of children who did not receive it, in order to ask for a worthless cloisonne bracelet for the Olympic bid, even stayed outside the hotel where the delegation stayed to meet people and asked, until the charter let Jan-Joseph send one alone before they were satisfied with the dispersal.

In a hurry to come back, he didn't buy any gifts for the child, Lin Zhiguo was worried about this matter, and when he learned that there were still a few left, he said with a smile: "Thank you, Mr. Zhang, I think the little monsters will like it very much." ”

"Just borrow flowers to offer Buddha, don't thank me, if you want to thank the BJ Olympic Bidding Committee."

At 11:46 a.m. Hong Kong time on September 24, the Bombardier business jet they were flying on landed safely on the runway of Shek Kong Airport, which had just been put into use again a month and a half ago.

"Whoa! Whoa! ”

After thanking the two German pilots, I walked down the gangway and saw Xiao Zhangqing rushing over from a black Mercedes that drove straight to the tarmac.

The charter picked up his daughter and kissed her little cheek, only to notice that not only Xia Yao came with his son in his arms, but also Mr. Gu, President Huang of the Hong Kong Jockey Club, and Chairman Wu of the Sports Association came to pick up the plane in person. The man in his fifties in a black suit standing between them, although it was the first time they had met, the charter recognized him at a glance as the president of the Hong Kong branch of the New H Society, Zhou.

Xia Yao glanced at him affectionately, and then smiled understandingly: "Qingqing, come to Mommy, let me talk to Grandpa Gu, Grandpa Huang and Grandpa Wu for a while." ”

Seeing that Aunt Magdalena stretched out her hand to hug her, the little girl hugged her neck tighter, and pouted her little mouth with a very reluctant face, "But...... But he said he would bring me a gift. ”

"The gift is here!"

Da Xiong wasted no time in raising a pair of cloisonné Olympic bracelets, dangling them in front of her, and asked in a gentle voice in English: "Qingqing, is the gift your father prepared for you beautiful?" Want to do it or not? ”

The little girl smiled at this time, snatched the bracelet and said, "Beautiful!" ”

The charter kissed her again, and coaxed and said, "Okay, let's talk to the grandfathers for a while, and then go home for dinner later." ”

"Oh, I'm going to play on the plane."

"No problem, it's windy outside, go with Mommy and brother."

Wait for Xia Yao to hug Xiao Zhanghan. took Xiao Zhangqing on the plane. Mr. Gu stretched out his right hand and said excitedly: "Win the first round." Well done, hard work! ”

The charter will be skeptical: "Winner of the first round? ”

"Well," the president of the Jockey Club Huang actually took out a bouquet of flowers from the car, and said with a fluttering eyebrow: "Berlin 14 votes, Manchester 22 votes, Istanbul 4 votes, we won directly in the first round with an overwhelming margin of 46 votes." Mr. Zhang, you have made a great contribution to winning the right to hold the event so cleanly. ”

"President Huang has an overreputation, this is the result of the concerted efforts of all colleagues of the 'Olympic Bidding Committee' and the 'Auxiliary Bidding Committee', how dare I be greedy for heaven's work?"

"I'll introduce you first."

Mr. Gu seemed to be ten years younger all of a sudden, and he let go of his body and introduced: "This is President Zhou of the Hong Kong branch of the New H Society, and I want to hear about it before you." ”

"Hello President Zhou, it's an honor to meet you."

Dealing with NB Electric for several years, in order to pull him to the side of the pro-central government. The branch did a lot of work, but I didn't expect people to either not help. To help is to do a great favor.

Thinking of the role played by the successful Olympic bid in stabilizing the hearts of the Hong Kong people and ensuring Hong Kong's return to the motherland, President Zhou said with emotion: "Mr. Zhang, thank you for your outstanding contributions to the country, the nation and BJ's Olympic bid. Before I came, the Prime Minister called me and asked me to express my heartfelt thanks to you. Vice Premier Li and Secretary Chen have also entrusted me to express their gratitude to you and sincerely invite you to serve as a senior advisor to the BJ Organising Committee. ”

Secretary Chen "has lofty aspirations", and the success of the Olympic bid has given him a great political achievement, the Z governance struggle is unavoidable, and it will even be more intense than what happened in later generations, the charter does not want to wade into that muddy water, held his hand and said: "President Zhou, this is what I should do, to say contribution, Mr. Gu, President Huang and President Wu's contribution is even greater." As for the invitation of the senior advisor of the Olympic Organizing Committee, I am afraid that I will disappoint Vice Premier Li and Secretary Chen, because I do not understand competitive sports and do not have the time and energy to work for the Olympic Organizing Committee. ”

"I'm just passing on a message, the Olympic Organizing Committee will officially send you an invitation in a few days, Mr. Zhang, you think about it seriously, don't be in a hurry to refuse."

As expected, President Zhou did not feel much disappointed, and said with a smile as he walked with him, Mr. Gu and others in the direction of the tower: "In addition to expressing my gratitude and extending an invitation to you, Vice Premier Li also specifically asked me to introduce you to what has happened in the past ten hours.

After Chairman Samaranch announced BJ's victory, Chairman Koo of the Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) immediately called the 'Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait' to congratulate him, and he said on the phone: "The success of the Olympic bid will not only benefit both sides of the Taiwan Strait, but will also be good for Asia." I was nervous watching TV just now, but now I'm relieved and I'm very happy for you! ’”

Of course, he knew that this was Vice President Li's ideal to let him share the joy of success, and nodded again and again: "Sports have nothing to do with politics, and I think Chinese people around the world are equally happy." ”

"yes."

President Zhou nodded his head and then introduced: "The major Chinese groups in Singapore have specially gathered their members to wait in front of the TV and wait for the good news from Monte Carlo. As soon as the news of BJ's victory was announced, they immediately cheered, opened champagne to celebrate BJ's successful bid for the Olympic Games, and sang "Unforgettable Tonight".

The "Global Chinese Support and Assist BJ Olympic Bid Joint Committee" and the "EU-China Exchange Center Association" sent an enthusiastic open letter to the BJ Olympic Bid Committee at the German headquarters in Düsseldorf. The letter said: Today is a day worthy of celebration by the BJ people, the Chinese people, and the Chinese people all over the world, and overseas Chinese and Chinese people abroad are proud and excited about it.

In an open letter to the BJ Olympic Bidding Committee, the Federation of Overseas Chinese in Switzerland said that the success of BJ's bid for the Olympic Games marks a new historical milestone for the Chinese nation under the leadership of the new government, and all Chinese at home and abroad are jubilant and extremely proud of this. ”

Mr. Gu couldn't hold back his excitement and added: "The Chinese students, scholars and Chinese people in the British Isles were overjoyed after receiving the good news.

The overseas Chinese in Rio de Janeiro were ecstatic and gathered from all over the city to the Chinese Friendship Hall in the city to greet each other and greet each other. The crisp sound of firecrackers sounded on Kobang Street, which is densely populated with Chinese shops in Peru. A big red banner was hung at the gate of the General Administration of China Tonghui in Peru, and the lion dance troupe was immediately dispatched, and the gongs and drums on the streets of Jiabang were noisy for a while, as lively as the Chinese New Year......"

The charter smiled and asked, "What about Hong Kong?" ”

"Not to mention Hong Kong, not only are the citizens rejoicing, but even your lab has taken an unprecedented day off so that researchers can participate in various celebrations."

was in a hurry to go home to accompany his wife and children, and when he heard the "various celebrations", his head suddenly became bigger, and he hurriedly said: "Mr. Gu, President Zhou, President Huang, President Wu, I used to engage in research, and I am and will be in the future. Therefore, no matter what the celebration, I will not participate in it, and I will close my doors from the afternoon onwards, devote myself to research, and I can no longer fish for three days and dry nets for two days like before. ”

Winning the right to host the event is the first step, and more work needs to be done to make it a success.

Mr. Gu, who was about to take the hot iron, was anxious, and said in an almost pleading tone: "Charter, you are the image ambassador of the Olympic bid, and the leader of the BJ team of the 'Bidding Committee'. ”

"Mr. Gu, I don't want to look like an entertainment star, you can spare me when you are old."

"Just show up and say a few words."

"Mr. Gu, I'm very sorry, I really can't go."

In desperation, the charter could only leak the "heavenly machine" again, and when he learned that the scientists of the NB laboratory were expected to win the Nobel Prize, Mr. Gu was immediately ecstatic, grabbed his arm and said: "Double happiness, double happiness!" I owe it to me to think about this, you're busy with yours, it's okay if you don't go to the party. ”

"The eight characters haven't been skimmed yet, what kind of double happiness is coming, seniors, this matter must be kept secret, otherwise it will be spread out and it will not win the award, then this joke will be a big joke."

"Don't worry, we know what matters." (To be continued......)