2011 SU Update: Shortlist Designs Universiade Volunteer Service Center

SHENZHEN – Three designs have made their way onto the shortlist for the Universiade volunteer service center.

Among the three submissions, a design named “Happy U Station” was best received by experts, who were invited by the Shenzhen Committee of the CYLC (Communist Youth League of China) to review a total of 15 designs Monday. The committee is in charge of recruitment and training of Universiade volunteers.

The design highlighted the element of “U,” the Universiade emblem, and used waste containers to build volunteer service centers, the Southern Metropolis Daily reported yesterday.

Resembling a magic cube, another candidate, named “magic cube service station,” had earned a national design patent but was considered too costly, the paper said.

Nine of the 15 designs were from outside Shenzhen, which experts said reflected Shenzhen’s popularity in the country.

A total of 750 Universiade volunteer service centers would be completed before the Games for social and city volunteers, Games organizers said.

City volunteers were expected to provide information at public places such as train stations and tourist resorts.

Social volunteers were expected to promote Universiade culture and assist with the maintenance of social order in residential communities.

Social and city volunteers would work three shifts each day at the 750 volunteer service centers beginning two months ahead of the Universiade.

Games organizers planned to recruit 250,000 city volunteers and 1 million social volunteers.

In addition, 20,000 volunteers would be recruited for sports venues, the organizers said.

Training for volunteers had already started in universities.

(Source: Shenzhen Daily)