With Olympic venues ready for the Games, Beijing is gearing up to host a more civilized Olympics. Cultivating passionate, professional cheerleaders and audiences is one of the most important steps to ensure a civilized Olympics. Let's hear from our reporter Liu Bing about how the work is going on.

Many people go to the stadium to watch a game instead of watching it on TV because they want to feel the atmosphere of the game live. They can be happy or sad with their favorite team and athletes. But few people know that the behavior of audiences plays the same role as the performance of athletes.

 "At a sports event, there are two hot issues. The first one is the gold medal lists; the second one is how civil the audience is. You can tell this from the camera shots in international competitions. Half of the screen is the competition, another half is the audiences," said Chen Ying, the coach of 2008 Beijing Olympic Game cheerleaders.

Since not every member of the audience is familiar with the rules, some even get confused by the decisions of the judges. Professional cheerleaders can thus play a part in guiding the audience to follow the rules and behave in a more civilized manner, says Chen.

2008 Beijing Olympic Game cheerleaders was having a rehearsal in Bejing on June 13. [Photo: CRIENGLISH.COM/ Liu Bing]

"The role of cheerleaders is to cheer up, indicate to and guide the spectators. Any of us can cheer up the mood of watchers; The indication is, audience can easily follow my body language, like, this one is Liu Xiang to run, this one is Guo Jingjing, to dive. Guide, is to tell audience when to shout out their watchword, and when not to. Timing is crucial for high jumps and weight lifting, for example. When weight lifter is squatting or rising up, the audience had better watch in silence. Only when the green light is on should the people shout out."

Meanwhile, sports fans are always considered the most passionate audiences, but at the same time, the group that have little control over their emotions. Starting from 2004, the Beijing Sports Fans Association has proposed that fans follow etiquette rules, such as to take their waste with them after matches, stand up when the national anthem is playing etc. The association encourages every fan to shoulder the responsibility of a voluntary job. The fans should not only watch the games in a civilized way, but also influence the spectators around them.

Since cultivating civic sense in people is a long process, the Beijing Sports Fans Association also invited experienced fans to share their feelings on dos and don'ts. Athletes were also invited to speak how they felt about fans. Here is Wang Wen, president of Beijing Sports Fans Association.

"We asked some coaches and athletes, the stars of games to explain what they need from fans. Impolite gestures and actions by fans have negative impacts on players' performances. If you are supporting this team, then you absolutely won't like the negative effect it has on the team either."

Not only are the cheerleaders and volunteers of the Olympic Games trying their best to behave well in the Games, the city of Beijing is changing too. Here is Callum Douglas who works in the UN. He came to Beijing three years ago. He thinks Beijing not only looks more developed, but culturally, has changed a lot too.

"I took subway every day, the difference between now and two years ago is huge. You see people queuing every day now, not just once a month. The queuing at the stop works very well."

Douglas is confident that visitors to Beijing during the Games will not have a tough time getting around the city.

"I think the way, Beijing Olympics is very different from other previous Olympics, you have so many city volunteers, 400 thousand volunteers working in 450 stations around the city. That will be a huge help for people who come to Beijing from around China and from across the world. Because there they can ask any questions about the area they are in, and can get advice on restaurants and places to go in local areas, so that's what gonna make it much easier for visitors, otherwise they will have difficult time to get around."

The theme song of paralympic's cheerleaders is "Smiles of Beijing", it is written like this: Smiles of Beijing welcome you... Volunteer's smiles, Beijing's image. Smiles of volunteers reflect a feature which we have in Beijing... Let's wait and welcome the smiles of Beijing.