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全国伤残运动会在昆明开幕

KUNMING -- Chinese vice premier Hui Liangyu declared open of the 7th Chinese National Games for the Disabled here on Saturday, which will run to May 20 in both Kunming, the capital of China's southwest province of Yunnan, and neighboring city of Yuxi. The Games featured the participation of 2,251 athletes from 35 delegations for the biggest ever one of the kind in the country, including Hong Kong and Macao Special Administrative Regions.

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Artists perform at the opening ceremony of the Seventh Chinese National Games for the Disabled held in Kunming, capital of southwest China's Yunnan province, May 12, 2007. [Xinhua]

The 7th Games features 20 sports of archery, athletics, badminton, basketball for the deaf, boccia, cycling, football for the blind, football for the cerebral palsy, football for the deaf, goalball for the blind, judo for the blind, power lifting, shooting, swimming, table tennis, volleyball sitting, wheerchair basketball,wheerchair fencing, wheerchair rugby and wheerchair tennis.

Among them, five sports of archery, basketball for the deaf, cycling, wheerchair fencing and wheerchair tennis have concluded their competitions last year.

Swimmer Wang Xiaofu, who has five world records to his credit and will compete in nine events at the Games, set flame to a phoenix that flew to ignite the cauldron of the 7th National Games for the Disabled at the opening ceremony.

The flames were collected simultaneously from five special places of Yunnan province on Jan. 19 and began the relay by turns from Jan. 22 in five routes, before gathering in Kunming on Feb. 2 when the "Flame of Civalization, Flame of Nature, Flame of Purity, Flame of Power, Flame of Victory" merged to become the "Flame of Harmony".