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Article: 3rd Ld-Writethru-China Focus: Premier lights Beijing Paralympic flame, torch relay starts
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- August 28, 2008
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3rd Ld-Writethru-China Focus: Premier lights Beijing Paralympic
flame, torch relay starts
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 Jin Jing, the wheelchaired fencer
and Olympic torchbearer known for protecting the torch from
protestors in Paris leg of the relay, before it lit a torch held by
Liu Qi, president of the organizing ...