That was just one celebration for the 100-day countdown to the opening of the Beijing Olympic Games on August 8th. And there are plans for various other official celebrations.
picture taken on April 29, 2008 shows the Countdown Board for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games in front of the National Museum in Beijing. (Photo: chinadaily.com.cn/sohu.com)
Residents in the Olympic co-host cities are also marking the occasion in more informal ways.
In Beijing, people took photographs of the countdown clock in Tiananmen Square on Tuesday. And in the city of Qingdao, in eastern China's Shandong Province, where the Olympic sailing events will be held residents gathered to view their own clock as the countdown continues.
