Rehearsals for the opening ceremony of 2008 Beijing Olympic
Games will begin in August, said a senior official of the
Organizing Committee for the Beijing Olympic Games (BOCOG) on
Monday.
"The opening ceremony of Beijing Olympics, which draws much
attention from the world, has already had a first draft and will
begin preliminary run in August," said Jiang Xiaoyu, executive vice
president of BOCOG.
"Everything is going on smoothly and we surely will have a
wonderful opening ceremony as well as a good closing ceremony,"
added Jiang.
China's best-known film maker Zhang Yimou acts as the director
of the opening and closing ceremonies for the 2008 Olympic Games.
Hollywood director Steven Spielberg serves as an artistic
consultant along with Australian Ric Birch, director of the highly
successful opening and closing ceremonies at the Sydney Games in
2000, and Yves Pepin, president of French company ECA2.
(Xinhua News Agency June 12, 2007)