With the approval of the International Olympic Committee, the Beijing Olympic flame will be lit according to the traditional ceremony in Olympia, Greece on March 25th, 2008. From March 25th to 30th, 2008, the torch relay was held in Greece. On March 30th, 2008, the torch handover ceremony was held at the Pan-Athens Stadium in Greece (1896, the venue of the first modern Olympic Games). On March 3rd, 2008, a ceremony was held in Beijing to welcome the flame into China and start the torch relay.

The sequence and city of the torch relay route are: Beijing-Almaty-Istanbul-St. Petersburg-London-Paris-San Francisco-Buenos Aires-Dar es Salaam-Muscat-Islamabad-Mumbai-Bangkok-Kuala Lumpur-Jakarta-Canberra-Nagano-Seoul-Pyongyang-Ho Chi Minh City-Taipei-Hong Kong-Macau-Shantou, Hainan Province (Sanya and Wuzhishan). Nanchang)-Zhejiang (Wenzhou, Ningbo, Hangzhou, Shaoxing and Jiaxing)-Shanghai-Jiangsu (Suzhou and Nantong) Lanzhou)-Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region (Zhongwei, Wuzhong and Yinchuan)-Shaanxi Province (Yan 'an, Yangling, xianyang and Xi 'an)-Shanxi Province (Yuncheng, Pingyao, Taiyuan and Datong)-Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (. Rizhao, Linyi, Qufu, Taian and Jinan)-Henan Province (Shangqiu, Kaifeng, Zhengzhou, Luoyang and Anyang)-Hebei Province (Shijiazhuang, Qinhuangdao and Tangshan)-Tianjin-Beijing.

There seems to be no Handan.

On March 3 1 2008, a torch will be reserved for the Olympic flame to climb Mount Everest during the launching ceremony and relay activities to welcome it into China. When the flame reaches Mount Qomolangma, the torchbearer team will carry out the flame summit activities on any day in May when there are climatic conditions for summit.