Volunteers for the recently concluded World Expo pose at the airport in Shanghai, Nov 4, before leaving to volunteer at the football and rugby venues of the Guangzhou Asian Games.
Three cartoon images, with prototypes for harbor seals from Baengnyeong island off west coast of the Korean Peninsula, were chosen as the mascots for the 2014 Incheon Asian Games, the organizing committee announced on Thursday.
Schools in Guangpin have organized many activities to express their best wishes for the Guangzhou Asian Games, Nov 12 to 27.
A passenger buys tickets to Guangzhou at the special window inside Taiyuan station in Central China's Henan province on Nov 3, 2010. Passengers with tickets to the Asian Games are getting priority to buy train tickets to the host city, at such special windows in Taiyuan.
Horses are helped out of the cargo container on Thursday in Guangzhou. The first group of horses from South Korea for the Asian Games equestrian competition arrived at Guangzhou Baiyun Airport on Nov 4, 2010.
a member of the Hong Kong Windsurfing Team, trains for the Guangzhou Asian Games, on Nov 3, 2010. The windsurfing team members are in training session for the coming Asian Games in Stanly, Hong Kong.
Residents in Jiangmen cheer for the Asian Games torch relay on Nov 3, 2010. Jiangmen is called the No 1 hometown of overseas Chinese in South China's Guangdong province.
Malaysia will send a 340-member squad to the Asian Games on Nov 12 - 27.
An art collector in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, Zou Yongsheng, uses roots and rocks from his collection to make sculptures representing sports of the 16th Asian Games, and puts them on display, on Nov 2, 2010.
Children at a kindergarten in Neihuang county, Henan province, use their pictures of the 16th Asian Games Mascots to form two Chinese characters that means "the Asian Games", on Nov 2, 2010.
Pupils and their parents take part in a foot race at a primary school in Zhuji, East China’s Zhejiang province, Nov 3, 2010. As the 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games approaches, the school held a family-oriented sports activity to celebrate the extravaganza.
China's first inter-city subway, linking two Southern Chinese cities hosting the 2010 Asian Games, started operations Wednesday.