Little girl running to Beijing to celebrate Olympics

Little girl running to Beijing to celebrate Olympics
www.chinanews.cn 2007-08-04 11:48:17







Chinanews, Haikou, Aug 4 – Amid controversy, Zhang Huimin, an eight-year-old girl in Hainan Province, had been running on foot for an entire 30 days now. On Thursday noon, she reached Chibi city in Hubei Province.

The girl’s act made her become the center of spotlight. Media covered every movement of the girl, including even the slightest details like the clothes she wore and the kind shoes she wore on. People held different views about the girl, who had made up her mind to run 3,500 kilometers to Beijing on such hot and sultry days.

On August 2, reporters from CCTV’s No. 12 channel interviewed Zhang Jianmin, the little girl’s father, by telephone. The reporters also interviewed sports experts from the Hainan Provincial Sports Science Research Institute as well as the reporters from China News Service who covered the event.

On July 3, Zhang Huimin started to run from Tian Ya Hai Jiao (Remotest Corner of the Earth) in Sanya, Hainan. She intended to run through seven provinces and reach the Tiananmen Square in Beijing on August 28.

On August 3, a British TV station team arrived in China to cover the news about the little girl.