Chinanews, Beijing, Aug. 2 – According to statistics, 561,296 people have applied to be 2008 Olympics volunteers, 318,189 of the applicants being from Beijing, and 36,666 of them from Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan and other regions global wide, a record number in Olympic history.According to officials from the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad (BOCOG), there are more female applicants than male, most applicants have higher education backgrounds, and more than 97% of applicants are aged below 36.