The Federal Bureau of Investigation on Wednesday offered to help China with security at next year's Olympic Games.

美国联邦调查局于本周三表示愿为明年的北京奥运会提供安全保障。

Hundreds of thousands of athletes, celebrities and state officials, as well as journalists and tourists, are expected to descend on the country next August for the Games.

由于北京奥运会的召开，我国将于明年八月迎来数以万计的运动员、社会名流、各国官员、记者及游客。

"There are tremendous issues of security as to who is entering the country, what backgrounds they may have and whether they intend violence at the Olympic Games for any variety of reasons," Thomas Fuentes, the assistant director of the FBI's Office of International Operations, told reporters.

美国联邦调查局国际事务处副处长托马斯•富恩斯特在接受记者采访时说：“这会给中国带来许多的安全问题，比如来中国的都是些什么人，他们有什么背景，以及他们是否会在奥运期间因为各种原因制造暴力事件等。”

"This is a massive challenge for the authorities here in China to deal with. We're offering every possible assistance to them in terms of information sharing or other technical assistance."

“这对中国的安全机构是一个很大的挑战。我们愿意为北京奥运会提供信息资源共享及其它必要的技术支持。”

China has made much of relying on its own security forces for next year's Olympics and believes it can deliver a secure Olympic Games for a fraction of the $1.8 billion that Athens paid in 2004.

中国已能充分依靠其自身的安全保障能力来确保明年奥运会的顺利进行。2004年雅典奥运会在安全保障方面共花费了18亿美元，而中国相信北京奥运会在安全保障方面所需的费用将只是雅典奥运会安保费用的一小部分。

Liu Shaowu, head of the security department at the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games (BOCOG), said in April organizers had taken advice from the security chiefs of the last two Summer Games on how to keep the 2008 Olympics safe.

北京奥组委安全保障部部长刘绍武表示，今年4月，北京奥运会主办方已听取了前两届夏季奥运会安保负责人有关如何保障2008年北京奥运会安全的建议。