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Article: 2nd 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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2nd Ld: Premier Wen lights Beijing Paralympic flame at Temple of
Heaven
BEIJING, Aug. 28 (Xinhua) -- Chinese premier Wen Jiabao lit the
Beijing Paralympic flame at the ancient Temple of Heaven in Beijing
on Thursday, kicking off the torch relay across China before the
13th Paralympics opens on Sept. 6.
In front of the symbolic Hall of Prayer for Good Harvest, deaf-
mute flame collector Jiang Xintian lit the flame out of a concave,
burnished mirror.
The flame was then handed to a girl in wheelchair, before it lit
a torch held by Liu Qi, president of the organizing committee of the
just concluded Beijing Olympic Games.
Liu passed the torch to Wen Jiabao, who lit a cauldron and
announced ...