Article: Feature: Largest-ever fireworks show lights up Olympic feast

Feature: Largest-ever fireworks show lights up Olympic feast

by Xinhua Writer Tan Jingjing

BEIJING, Aug. 8 (Xinhua) -- A little girl nicknamed Ge Ge shouted with excitement when she saw fireworks bursting into the air amid thousands of smiling faces.

Clapping hands and cheering "Go! Go! Beijing!" with her elder sister, Ge Ge giggled to see more fireworks blossoming in the sky.

The sisters were among the 90,000 spectators in the National Stadium, also known as the Bird's Nest, to witness Friday's largest ever pyrotechnics featuring the Olympic opening ceremony.

China, as the birthplace of gunpowder, treated global television audience of four billion with a colorful and high-tech ...

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