National Day Celebrations Go On in ChinaParks in the Chinese capital of Beijing has crowded with tourists since Monday, the country's National Day. The joyful celebrations will last till the weekend.Among those National Day celebrators, there are local residents and tourists coming from other places of China. Sun Guoqing, coming from east China's Ningpo City, was deeply impressed by the neat and clean city, especially the peaceful and progressive atmosphere around here. "The sky is blue, the meadow is green and the flowers are in blossom and, first of all, there are happy people all around," he said. Sun was born on the same day as the People's Republic of China was founded 52 years ago. He and his wife came to Beijing to visit their son, a student in a Beijing university. All the major parks in Beijing are well decorated with a variety of flowers and trees, where colorful flags and ribbons are flying in the breeze. In the Temple of Heaven Park, two parterres were build to welcome the 2008 Olympic Games, that many residents regarded as a pleasure to the National Day celebrations. "We wish our country become stronger and more beautiful and our life happier," said Wang Xi, a taxi driver, who came to the Fragrance Hill Park in the western suburbs of Beijing with his family. |
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