Over 700 volunteer students from universities in Beijing functioned strongly for successful organization at the World Taekwondo Championships being staged here on May 18-22.

With many athletes coming from non-English speaking countries, students majoring in languages other than English are providing valuable services to organizers and athletes.

Students fluent in Spanish, Korean, Persian and Cuban languages are helping¹ translate at the news conferences.

Not only on news conference, these students also serve as guide for athletes and spectators² in and out matches.

"The volunteers should be responsible, hard working and very good at speaking foreign languages," said Li Shuang, head of the Press and Publicity³ Department.

"Students from University of Petroleum⁴ in particular are doing extremely well. They've been offering a lot of help for both the committee and the athletes."

Foreign journalists and athletes are also impressed with the volunteers' services.

"The services provided⁵ have been perfect. Everything has gone well. Just now, I had some problems with registering⁶, but the media center volunteer gave me a lot of help," said Rodriguez Liem, a journalist from Sweden.

Araz Nabizadeh, a reporter for Feightermag in Sweden, said: "From what I have seen so far, everything has been professional. During the competition, I hope that I can get more experience in my profession. Even in the excitement of the fight, I have to remain a journalist and write a good article."