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		An excavator begins work after the groundbreaking ceremony for the National Swimming Centre for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing December 24, 2003. Construction and logistics costs for the Games are expected to total 40 billion yuan (US$4.8 billion) and companies from all over the world are trying to get a piece of the action. [Reuters]                 Professor Ron Newman, dean and director of Sydney College of the Arts with the University of Sydney, gives a speech at the Monday symposium. [China Daily]                 He Zhenliang (left), a member of the International Olympic Committee, waits for Jiang Xiaoyu, vice-president of the Beijing 2008 Organizing Committee for the Games of XXIX Olympiad, to put his seal on a huge board displayed at the symposium on Monday during the ongoing Beijing Olympic Cultural Festival. [China Daily]                 Extention: The dancer in the Chinese seal is linked to many aspects of Chinese culture, as China Daily cartoonist Luo Jie envisions.                 He Zhenliang (second left), a member of the International Olympic Committee, and Jiang Xiaoyu second right), vice-president of the Beijing 2008 Organizing Committee for the Games of XXIX Olympiad, look at a jade seal carrying the Beijing 2008 Olympics emblem on display at the Monday symposium. [China Daily]                 A cultural festival aimed at promoting the 2008 Beijing Olympics kickstarts at the China Millennium Monument in Beiing September 21, 2003. The 10-day festival - First Olymic Cultural Festival for 2008 Olympics - features exhibitions, symposiums, concerts and other public events. The Olympic Cultural Festival will be held annually in the following five years before the 2008 Olympics. [newsphoto]                 Liu Qi, president of the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad (second from left) and International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge (second from right) applaud the signing for the establishment of the Beijing Olympic Broadcasting Co Ltd August 31, 2003. The company will be the host broadcaster during the 2008 Games. [newsphoto.com.cn]                 Hein Verbruggen (L), Chairman of the Coordination Commission at the International Olympic Committee for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, and National People's Congress Chairman Wu Bangguo (second from right) hold high the official emblem for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games at the Temple of Heaven in Beijing Sunday August 3, 2003.                 Chinese entertainers perform during a gala in the Temple of Heaven in Beijing August 3, 2003. The celebrations were hosted by Beijing organizing committee to unveil the emblem for the 2008 Olympics. [newsphoto.com.cn]                 Chinese entertainers perform during a gala in the Temple of Heaven in Beijing August 3, 2003. The celebrations were hosted by Beijing organizing committee to unveil the emblem for the 2008 Olympics. [newsphoto.com.cn]                 Chinese entertainers perform during a gala in the Temple of Heaven in Beijing August 3, 2003. The celebrations were hosted by Beijing organizing committee to unveil the emblem for the 2008 Olympics. [newsphoto.com.cn]                 A giant emblem of the 2008 Olympic Games hangs in the air as tinsel flies in the air during a gala at the historical Temple of Heaven in Beijing August 3, 2003. The celebration gala was hosted by the Beijing organising committee to unveil the official emblem of the 2008 Olympic Games in China's capital. [Reuters]                 A model of the National Swimming Center, a major venue for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. The Sino-Australian joint plan beat out all others in the international design competition last month. With investment of 830 million yuan (US$100 million), the center's construction is scheduled to begin by the end of this year and should be completed by 2006. [newsphoto.com.cn]                 He Zhenliang [R], a consultant to the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games Organizing Committee, passes a torch to a pupil from a primary school attached to the Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics July 23,at the opening ceremony of the photo show entitled "Olympics in China." More than 400 photos are displayed at the exhibition which is sponsored by the Jiu San Society - one of China's non-Communist parties - to showcase the history and culture of the Olympics and the ties between the Olympics and China. [China Daily]                 The design for the State Stadium, which resembles a giant bird's nest, has been chosen by the organizing committee based on fair competition. [newsphoto.com.cn]                 China's former table tennis world champion Deng Yaping (centre) welcomes former International Olympic Committee President Juan Antonio Samaranch on July 8, 2003, at the Beijing Organizing Committee for the 2008 Olympic Games. The 83-year-old Spaniard accompanied Spanish Foreign Minister Ana Palacio on a three-day visit to China. [newsphoto.com.cn]                 This photo displays the Fushanwan sea area in Qingdao, East China's Shandong Province.The sailing boat competition of the 2008 Olympics will be held here.[newsphoto.com.cn]                 Emblems of Olympic Games in Retrospect                 Fireworks light up the sky in Xi'an, Northwest China's Shaanxi Province on July 13, 2002 after Beijing winning the bid to host the 2008 summer Olympics. [newsphoto.com.cn]                 University students from Beijing celebrate the second anniversary of the city's successful bid to host the 2008 Games. [newsphoto.com.cn]                 Chinese President Hu Jintao (right) meets with IOC President Jacques Rogge, pledging more efforts to strengthen public health, emergency response and security systems in China ahead of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. [newsphoto.com.cn]                 This photo displays a nest-like architecture scheme for the main stadium of the 2008 Olympics. The scheme has been pre-approved by the Beijing public during a design show in Beijing, beating the other two favorites by the smallest margin. The architecture plan, co-designed by Swiss company Herzog & DeMeuron and China Architecture Design Institute, won 3,506 votes for the first place from over 6,000 visitors to the six-day exhibition. [newsphoto.com.cn]                 A construction model co-designed by U.S.-based Sasaki Associates, Inc. and Huahai, a Tianjin design firm, shows a possible future look for a 2008 Olympic venue.                 Xie Pengye arrives in Rizhao, East China's Shandong Province on July 4, 2003. Xie started from Qingdao on June 27 and planned to trave 10,000 kilometers in 16 months across the country to show his support for Qingdao's bid to host the sailing boat competition of the 2008 Olympics. [newsphoto.com.cn]                 Wang Wei (L), vice president of Beijing Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games briefed the Executive Board of the International Olympic Committee on Beijing's preparations for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games on June 30, 2003 in Prague.[Xinhua]                 Hein Verbruggen, president of the IOC Coordination Commission for the Beijing Olympics, speaks Wednesday at a news conference in Beijing. Verbrugge lavished praise on the progress Beijing had made in the first year after the Chinese capital was awarded the 2008 Olympic Games. [newsphoto.com.cn]
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