Together with sports and culture, environmental protection was added to the content of Olympic Games form the 2000

Sydney Olympic Games, and become the three pillars of the Olympic Games ever since.

"Green Olympics" embodied the quintessence of the 2200 years old Chinese philosophy - the harmony between

environment and people. As a country with a vast territory and abound in gifts of nature, China is one of the treasure-house

of world natural resources. Today, facing the environmental destroy caused by industrial development, the protection of wild

animals and plants has become a severe task in front of all human beings.

The concept of "Green Olympics" was fused into the design of the Sydney Olympic Games commemorative coins, the local

featured natural environment and rare animals and plants were depicted by its colored design.

In order to advocate the protection of wild animals and show the preciousness of those animals called national treasure,

we have issued the series of Panda and Rare Animals Commemorative coins. The designs of the 2008 Olympic Games

commemorative coins can still use this theme to reflect Chinese people's determination to enhance the concept of

environmental protection and keep the ecological balance, and this is also the main content of our "Green Olympics".