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【08.8.20 基督教科学箴言报】北京画家为奥运民工准备前排座位
【原文标题】Beijing artist finds front-row seats for Olympic workers
【中文标题】北京画家为奥运民工准备前排座位
【登载媒体】基督教科学箴言报
【来源地址】http://features.csmonitor.com/ol ... or-olympic-workers/
【译者】荡漾
【声明】本翻译仅供Anti-CNN使用，谢绝转载
【原文】(by Simon Montlake)
Beijing
Last July, artist Su Jian set up his easel at a building site in Beijing and asked the foreman to find him volunteers. He wanted to paint a portrait of some of the migrant workers who were building the Olympic Green.
Five men agreed to model for Mr. Su. In return, he made them a deal: If he sold the painting for enough money, they would be going to the Olympics.
On Monday, Su made good on his promise.
Four of the five men trooped into the iconic Bird’s Nest National Stadium and sat in the front tier, trading their hard hats for casual clothes and red Chinese flags.
It was their first time at such a sporting event, their first real vacation after years of hard work on construction sites. (The fifth man declined to attend.)
The workers were among an estimated 300,000 migrants who participated in the construction of Olympics sites and infrastructure. Migrants are known as China’s “floating population,” men and women from the hardscrabble countryside whose toil in cities and factories helps to sustain the country’s economic boom.
Last year, Beijing’s official count of migrants was 4.2 million, out of a citywide population of 16.3 million. Those who study the population believe the real number is probably much higher.
In recent months, their numbers have fallen sharply as construction sites and polluting factories fell silent under a pre-Olympics beautification drive. The government also drove out migrants peddling fruit and begging for spare change before the Games.
Back in the 90,000-capacity stadium, a men’s 200-meter race was under way. The men who built the Olympic facilities were finally getting an up-close look at their work – and at the glittering spectacle that has captured the world’s avid gaze.
It was a moment that none is likely to forget.
“I had dreamed of coming back one day to see the stadium … [but] I’m just a worker,” says Yun Fangzhi, a bricklayer, who arrived in Beijing after a six-hour bus ride from his village with only the clothes on his back and his identity card. He now has an Olympics T-shirt, thanks to Su, and a toy for his son.
“I’ve never been so happy in my life as when I was cheering for China in the stadium. It was best time in my life,” he says.
Mr. Yun expected he might get to join a guided tour of the site long after the Games had finished. Instead, he had a front-row seat Monday as Chinese hurdler Liu Xiang dashed a nation’s dreams by pulling out of the Games with an injury.
Since then, the group of four men, who parted ways last year after their contracts ended, have seen the Great Wall, eaten Peking duck, and basked in the Chinese media limelight, including interviews on national TV.
People recognized them at the stadium and on the street, and they quickly settled into their mini-celebrity.
Su gave them all digital cameras to use during their vacation and plans to cull the best pictures for a future art show.
The four men arrived late to an interview Wednesday at their hotel – paid for by Su, along with other travel expenses – after a photo shoot in Tiananmen Square ran long. All were leaving later that day, back to other cities for construction jobs or to their hometowns in the countryside, where the summer harvest is in full swing.
Zhang Yanqun, a materials inspector at the Bird’s Nest who dropped out of primary school to join the “floating population,” plans to return to Beijing and get a construction job once the Olympics moratorium ends.
He’s still giddy with the thrill of his Olympics moment. “I saw so many people … it was so exciting. I think the Bird’s Nest is amazing,” he says.
本文作者Simon Montlake就文章所做的音频报道，1：32，请点击播放收听
【译文】
去年七月画家苏坚在北京一个建筑工地搭起画架，请工头找几个志愿者，打算画一幅以绿色奥运建筑民工为主角的肖像画。（这幅画参见下帖）
五个民工同意担任苏先生的模特，作为回报，他答应这些民工如果画能卖到足够的钱，他将安排他们观看奥运。
周一，苏成功履行了他的承诺。
五个民工中的四位（有一个拒绝参加）结伴走进了标志性建筑鸟巢国家体育馆，坐在了前排的座位上，换下了他们的安全帽，穿上休闲服，还装饰了国旗。
这是他们平生第一次亲身经历奥运，也是他们在建筑工地多年辛勤劳动后第一次真正意义上的假期。
据估计参与奥运建筑施工的民工有30万。民工在中国就是人们所说的“流动人口”，贫困地区的男女在城市、工厂付出艰辛的劳作，推动了中国经济的持续增长。
去年，北京官方统计在16.3百万的城市人口中民工有4.2百万，而人口研究专家认为真实的数字可能更大。
最近几个月，出于美化奥运的需要，建筑工地和化工厂被勒令停工，民工的数量急剧下降。政府还驱赶做小买卖的民工请求他们离开为奥运腾出城市空间。
回到拥有9万个座位的体育馆，正进行的比赛是田径200米跑。这几位参与了奥运场馆建筑施工的兄弟终于能近距离看看他们的劳动成果——它是如此光彩夺目，抓住了全世界渴望的目光。
这绝对是难忘的时刻。
Yun Fangzhi说：“我曾经梦想过有一天能回来看看这个体育馆，但我只是个工人”。Yun是个砖瓦工，当初只带了几件衣服和身份证坐了6小时的汽车离开村子来到北京。而现在多亏了苏坚，他有了奥运T恤衫，还有一个为儿子准备的玩具。
他说：“我一辈子都没这么高兴过。能在体育馆里为中国加油，这是我一辈子最美妙的时刻”。
Yun先生以前期待过有机会在奥运结束以后参加旅行团回来看看。不过周一拜中国跨栏运动员刘翔因伤退赛使中国人梦想破灭所赐，他坐到了前排的座位。
自去年工地合同结束后他们各分东西，如今一行四人随后爬了长城、吃了北京烤鸭，聚焦于媒体镁光灯下，还接受了国家电视台的采访。
在体育馆里和街上有人认出了他们，转眼间他们就成了小名人。
苏坚把数码相机都交给他们使用，并计划挑选出其中一些好照片将来作个展出。
周三在他们下榻的旅馆有个采访，因为在天安门广场的摄影拖延他们来迟了。包括旅馆在内的一切费用都由苏坚支付。当天晚些时候他们又将离开，有的去其他城市的建筑工地，有的则回到农村的家里，当下正是夏忙时节。
Zhang Yanqun做过鸟巢的材料工，小学就辍学加入“流动人口”的队伍，计划等奥运过后再回到北京继续建筑工地的活。
他仍然沉浸在令人眩晕的奥运体验中。“我看到这么多人，太兴奋了。我觉得鸟巢太漂亮了”。
【读者评论】
1. Terence H | 08.20.08
I wish there were more Mr. Su’s in this world.
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我希望世界上有更多的苏先生。
2. roy | 08.21.08
a good artist! chinese migrant workers provided their great contribution to the succcess of beijing olympic.
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很棒的画家！中国的民工为北京奥运的成功作出了巨大的贡献。
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