More than 660,000 people have applied for volunteering jobs for the coming 2010 Asian Games, organizers said on Thursday.

Volunteers can send in their applications either through the official website (www.gzv2010.com), the 95 designated or moving application centers in the city as well as mobile phones, said the organizers at the press briefing.

Among the applicants up till Wednesday, college students account for 68 percent, said Wang Huanqing, secretary of the volunteers department of the Asian Games.

The 16th Asian Games will run from November 12-27, 2010 in Guangzhou, the second city in China to host the biggest sports gala in the continent after Beijing held the 11th Asian Games in 1990.

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