Gifts of Friendship

WUHAN (CHN) - The participants of the Games, the guests, and media practitioners received various gifts over the past days. The gifts linked people from different countries and cultural backgrounds.

Badge Necklace

Coaches and athletes of the Peruvian team wear badges on the straps of their ID cards, making it look like a necklace.

Coach Teofilo Rojas said that they have collected about 20 badges in total. "We exchanged team badges with other delegations, as a genial symbol of friendship between different countries."

Creative Gifts of 'Yellow Crane Tower'

Nikolay Pankov, Deputy Minister of Defence of the Russian Federation, received a postcard with a three-dimensional picture of the Yellow Crane Tower before his departure. The postcard reads "Building friendship and promoting peace. Wuhan welcomes you."

Twenty-four participating guests who stayed at Wuhan Liantou Peninsula Hotel & Resort received creative gifts — a chocolate Yellow Crane Tower and a dough figurine of "Bingbing," the mascot of the 7th CWG.

Longevity Noodles

On Oct. 20, Sri Lankan athlete Sulanjana Nadheera Perera Gabadage spent an unforgettable birthday in the Athletes' Canteen. To celebrate his 26th birthday, the canteen prepared a cream-free birthday cake, along with longevity noodles, a traditional Chinese birthday food. Gabadage shared the cake with his teammates. He said that he will never forget his special Chinese birthday celebration.

Clay Sculpture

Hu Zuolin is an inheritor of intangible culture heritage of clay sculpture art. On October 22, Hu made a bust of the Egyptian volunteer Elhussein Abdelmawlaelsayed at the Main Media Center and gave it to him as a gift.

(Source: SUMOC Executive Committee - Reporter Yao Chuanlong, Ouyang Song, Liu Shu & Wang Youmin - Editor NIE Yang)