China invited anti-doping officials from other Asian countries
to give their experience in the fight against doping at a seminar
that closed in Beijing on Monday.
China invited 27 anti-doping officials from 11 Asian countries
including Azerbaijan, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Lebanon, Pakistan,
Vietnam, Myanmar, Mongolia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Laos to the
two-week seminar, giving lectures by Chinese anti-doping
experts.
"We would like to help train anti-doping workers in Asia, who
will be like seeds to grow into local anti-doping powers," said
Wang Xinzhai, deputy office director of the China Olympic Committee
Anti-Doping Commission. "It is one way that we fulfill our
responsibility and commitment to the world's anti-doping fight," he
added.
The First Seminar on Anti-Doping for Asia Countries Olympic
Committees covered such topics as history and trend of the
international anti-doping fight, latest improvement of
international doping test, China's anti-doping policies and its
achievements, doping control program in 2008 Beijing Olympic Games
and doping test procedures.
Seminar participants said that they did learn a lot.
"Pakistan is very new in this field. So I think the seminar is
very informative and educational. The host not only gave us very
detailed lectures about doping control laws, methods and so on, but
also took us to the new lab," said Naveed Akram Cheema, a sports
official from Punjab, Pakistan. "It was very good, very impressive.
Hopefully I can come back next year for the Beijing Olympics."
The seminar belonged to a foreign aid human resources
development project sponsored by the Ministry of Commerce, assisted
by the State General Administration of Sports and organized by the
China Sports International Corporation (CSIC).
CSIC general manager Lu Guoguang said that they hope to hold
more of this kind of seminars in the future.
"This is the first anti-doping seminar in our sports-related
seminar series started since 2005. In the future, we may ask people
from other continents to join us," Lu said.
(Xinhua News Agency November 20, 2007)