BOCOG released the Pictograms of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games on the occasion of the 2-year countdown to the opening of the Games
The Official Mascots of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games - The Overview of the official mascots for the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing, China
The Official Mascots of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games - The Overview of the official mascots for the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing, China
North Korea will host a leg of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games torch relay, state media has reported.
The flame, which is due to pass through 22 cities in the four months
before the Games, is expected to reach North Korean capital Pyongyang
on 28 April.
Chinese and North Korean officials made the agreement in Pyongyang, said the official Korean Central News Agency.
A day earlier the torch is scheduled to pass through the South Korean capital of Seoul on its way north, say reports.
The torch, which will be lit at Olympia in Greece on 25 March, is
due to cover five continents before the event begins on 8 August.
The planned 137,000-km (85,000-mile) relay route will include a trip to the top of Mount Everest.
The two Koreas have agreed to send a joint team of officials to the
Beijing Olympics by train, as part of reconciliation efforts after
their 1950-1953 civil war.
Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk
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The Official Mascots of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games - The Overview of the official mascots for the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing, China
(BEIJING, December 20) -- A launching ceremony was held at the newly built
National Indoor Stadium on Thursday for the issue of the fourth set of
Olympic-themed commemorative stamps.
The new issue, entitled "XXIX Olympiad Competition Venues," includes six
stamps and a separate small sheet.
With a limited circulation and a total denomination of 8.6 yuan, the stamps
feature the China Agriculture University Gymnasium, Laoshan Velodrome, the
National Indoor Stadium, Peking University Gymnasium, the National Aquatics
Center, and the Qingdao Olympic Sailing Center. The separate small sheet
features the National Stadium (the "Bird's Nest") and is priced at six yuan.
 China
Post presents stamps to BOCOG and the Beijing 2008 Olympic Project Construction
HeadquartersAt the ceremony, the China Post presented stamps to BOCOG (the Beijing
Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad), the Beijing 2008
Olympic Project Construction Headquarters and the workers from the site of the
venues.
On the same day, the Beijing Philatelic Company also issued a First Day Cover
and other philatelic products.
 China
Post presents stamps to the workers of the Olympic venues The
workers autograph an exhibition board set up on the occasion of the new
issue.
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Beijing,
a world famous metropolis with a long history, ever served as a
dynastic capital from the beginning of the fin in 1115 to the end
of the Qing Dynasties in 1911. On October 1, 1949, the People's
Republic of China was founded and Beijing has been the capital and
the political, economic, communication, scientific and cultural
centre of new China.
Beijing
nestles at the foot of Yanshan Mountain on the northern tip of the
North China Plain and mountainous areas make up 62% of its total
land. It has a continental monsoon climate .The annual mean temperature
is 11.8 du and the annual precipitation is 637 mm.
Covering
an area of 16800 kM2 and with a population of 12.46 million, Beijing
is one of the most important tourist cities of China. There are
many attractive historic sites and scenic spots, such as the Great
Wall at Badaling, the Ming Tombs, Palace Museum, the site of Peking
Man's Home at Zhoukoudian, the Summer Palace, Xiangshan Hill, Tian'anmen
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