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Article: 1st Ld: Premier Wen lights Beijing Paralympic flame at Temple of Heaven
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- August 28, 2008
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1st Ld: Premier Wen lights Beijing Paralympic flame at Temple of
Heaven
BEIJING, Aug. 28 (Xinhua) -- Chinese premier Wen Jiabao lit the
Beijing Paralympic flame was at the ancient Temple of Heaven in
Beijing on Thursday, kicking off the torch relay across China before
the 13th Paralympics open on Sept. 6.
In front of the symbolic Hall of Annual Prayer, deaf-mute flame
collector Jiang Xintian lit the flame out of a concave, burnished
mirror. The flame was then handed to a wheelchair-ridden girl,
before it lit a torch held by Liu Qi, ...