Wang Yuanyuan
IN order to make this the greenest Universiade yet, volunteers will receive training online and through mobile phones.
The Universiade organizers have developed a special software which can send the teaching materials by text message to volunteers every day, which could both save money and time, Jiang Yong, an official in charge of the training program, said.
These courses are mainly for regular volunteers so that they don t have to gather together to receive face-to-face training at fixed times. It is both environmentally friendly and more economical, he said.
Chief volunteers and those who will attend the sporting events will still need face-to-face training by veterans of the Beijing Olympics, the Shanghai Expo and the Guangzhou Asian Games.
The training materials will be paperless. The training, which will start in April, will be carried out at 617 venues.
Volunteers will receive three types of training, including general training, venue training and position training. The courses include first-aid skills, city and Universiade history, English skills, etiquette, public security and law.
Meanwhile, the city s center for disease control and prevention (CDC) will take measures to prevent health emergencies from April.
The biggest challenge is to prevent the imported infectious diseases such as chikungunya fever, with Shenzhen being one of the largest port cities in the world, Ma Hanwu, vice director of the CDC, said.
The CDC will also be alert over food poisoning cases during the Games. Measures will be taken soon to ensure no food poisoning case or food safety incidents will occur in the city during the Unviersiade, Ma said.