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Tuesday, March 20, 2001, updated at 21:09(GMT+8) | ||||||||||||||
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Kite Festival Opens in East China CityA festival featuring kite art opened Tuesday in Hangzhou, capital of Zhejiang Province.With a history of 2,300 years, Chinese kite art has been developed into a large-sized event in terms of kite's shape, color and flying functions. The 45-day festival is jointly sponsored by two cities of Hangzhou and Weifang which is a major city famous for north-China-style kites in Shandong Province. More than 40,000 spectators from home and abroad attended the opening ceremony held Monday evening. During the festival there will be a kite-flying competition, kite-flying performances and a kite art exhibition.
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