2008 Olympic Games backpacks testament to quality of Chinese goods
With the Beijing Winter Olympics beginning in less than 30 days, there are reports several journalists have been spotted carrying bags from the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing as they run around venues for the 2022 Games.
For example, in a video circulating on social media, a reporter, carrying a black backpack with a Beijing Summer Olympic logo printed on it, is seen checking in at a desk inside the media center for the 2022 Games in Beijing.
Surprisingly, such sightings are not uncommon as the similar media bags, made 14 years ago in Beijing, have also been seen in the company of many journalists at many other Olympics such as those in Tokyo, Rio, and London.
So why are people so fond of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games media bag?
Many foreign journalists remarked that "the Beijing Olympic Games media bag is the most practical and sturdy one."
Last year, an Iranian journalist at the Tokyo Olympics confessed that he carried it at every competition.
"Because it's very good quality," he said. "It is specially designed for professional photographers."
A Spanish journalist also transported his bag to London, Rio de Janeiro, and Tokyo. The bag does not appear to have worn.
"All the Olympic Games I carried it."
"I have covered four Olympic Games. Each time I carried the Beijing media bag, because its quality is very good. It is specially designed for professional photographers," he said.
This has reminded many netizens of an old Chinese song, "Your backpack, carried until now, is still intact."
This year, reporters from around the world covering the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics will be given a new media kit.
Because the Beijing Winter Olympics coincide with the Chinese New Year, the media kit include work items like notebooks and pens, lifestyle items like thermos cups and warm hat sets, and cultural souvenirs such as character Fu, paper-cut window flowers, Chinese knots, and badges.
Some netizens said that the media kits for this year's Beijing Winter Olympics would "allow more foreigners to see the high quality of Chinese stuff."
We believe that at the 2024 Paris Olympics, 2026 Milan Winter Olympics, Beijing 2008 and 2022 media bags will undoubtedly appear again at media centers. Along with the footsteps of global media reporters, they will become a symbol of China.
