SOEs & Winter Olympics: Olympic Flame on Display at CTG

The Olympic flame for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics was on display at China Three Gorges Corporation (CTG) on Dec 15, and exhibited online in the company's targeted poverty-alleviation counties.

CTG has launched poverty-alleviation projects since 2006, organizing teenagers in poverty-stricken areas to visit other places like Yichang in Central China's Hubei Province and Beijing.

To allow children in remote areas to experience the charm of the Winter Olympics and ice and snow sports, the Beijing Organizing Committee for the 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games joined hands with CTG to invite teachers and students from the poverty-stricken areas to participate in the Olympic flame display event via video link.

At the end of the display event, CTG staff members sang a song to express their wish for a successful Winter Olympics.

A display event of the Olympic flame for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics is held at CTG on Dec 15. [Photo/sasac.gov.cn]

CTG has played a role in the Olympic Games. For example, the company participated in construction of the National Aquatics Center, also known as the "Water Cube", a main venue for the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympic Games, and the Three Gorges Dam was one of the places of the Olympic torch relay in 2008.

CTG became an official partner of the Beijing 2022 Olympic Games last year and ever since has been practicing the concept of "Green, Open, Shared and Clean" and participating in green power trading for the Winter Olympics.

So far, the company has traded more than 50 million kilowatt-hours of green power and helped realize 100 percent renewable energy supply in the Olympic venues. Its efforts will help make the Beijing 2022 Olympic Games the first carbon neutral Olympic Games in history.

(Executive editor: Niu Yilin)