The torch relay is one of the important cultural activities of the Olympic Games, which is of great significance to show the national image, spread the idea of hosting the Olympic Games, enhance national cohesion and inspire people's enthusiasm for participation.
The torch relay of Beijing Winter Olympics and Paralympics adheres to the Olympic hosting concept of "green, * *, open and clean", implements the requirements of "simplicity, safety and brilliance", simplifies the scale and innovates the form, so as to create a good atmosphere for the successful hosting of Beijing Winter Olympics and Paralympics.
The torch relay of the Winter Paralympic Games will last until the afternoon of March 4th.
Xu Zhijun, Deputy Secretary-General of BOCOG and leader of the torch relay special group, said that the torch relay of Beijing Winter Paralympic Games is divided into three parts: urban fire collection, fire collection and torch relay.
Among them, the collection of urban fires will be completed on March 2, and a total of 9 urban fires will be collected, including those collected from mandeville, England, and 8 urban fires collected from Beijing, Yanqing and Zhangjiakou.
The fires in China's eight major cities are the summer Olympic fire collected from Tiantan Park, the light fire collected from Beijing Blind School, the mutual help fire collected from the warm home of Wangjing Street in Beijing, the hope fire collected from China Braille Library, the source fire collected from the Grand Canal Waterway Terminal, the peaceful fire collected from Yanqing Ancient Great Wall and the hydrogen clean fire collected from Chuangba Park in Zhangjiakou.
After the city fire collection is completed, a fire collection ceremony will be held in Tiantan Park on the afternoon of March 2, and nine city fires will be collected as official fires for the Winter Paralympic Games.