At main streets of Lijiang, banners and posters reading "Welcome Olympic Torch and Support Sichuan People", "Hearts of Beijing, Lijiang and Sichuan Ties Together" or "Improve Reconstruction work as to Spread Olympic Spirit" can be seen everywhere.
Torchbearer Liu Aiqin runs with Olympic torch in Lijiang, Yunnan Province on June 10, 2008.
For decades, Lijiang has experienced from the spirit of constantly striving for improvement in the ruins of the earthquake on February 3, 1996, and becomes a new world-known Lijiang.
"The Olympic flame is now endowed with more glaring color and light as the strong and united Chinese people are all standing together with people in quake-hit zone," Wang said.
Torchbearer Yang Liying runs with Olympic torch in Lijiang, Yunnan Province on June 10, 2008.
Finally, the torch relay concluded at 11:29 a.m. local time at the foot of Yulong Snow Mountain in Southwest China's Yunnan Province.
The last torchbearer was female vice mayor Yang Yiben, an ethnic Naxi who used to travel around the world in a car.
(Xinhua News Agency June 10, 2008)