The National Aquatics Center (NAC), otherwise known as the Water Cube, will turn on its symbolic blue-color lights on April 2 to mark the annual World Autism Awareness Day.
This will be the 11th time the NAC has co-organized the annual "turn on the blue lights" public welfare activity with relevant partners to call on society to better care about autistic children.
Autism is one of the behaviorally defined developmental brain disorders. Despite this, autistic children are often compared to "children from the stars" for their potential in certain fields. There are estimated to be more than 10 million people suffering from autistic disorders in China, including two million children.
The National Speed Skating Oval (NSSO) near the NAC, or the Ice Ribbon, which will be one of the main venues for The XXIV Olympic Winter Games in 2022, will also switch on its blue lights at the same time to create a dreamlike blue starry sky.
Relevant equipment and facilities of both the newly upgraded NAC and the newly built NSSO are being intensively tested in early April, during which the two venues will host dozens of test events of curling, wheelchair curling and speed skating.
Despite the heavy schedule, they still join the tradition of organizing the public welfare activity for autistic children.
There will be an online form on supporting full-life circle rehabilitation being held on the same day. Autism and education experts, and representatives of relevant social organizations from Beijing and Guangzhou will attend the forum.
The NAC is hosting an art show with the theme of "love under the blue sky-2021" on its official website, exhibiting the best works chosen from about 500 paintings by children, some of whom autistic, from March 30 to April 10.
On short-video and social media platforms, caring of autistic children activities initiated by the NAC since March 15 have caught wide social attention.
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