(9 Jun 2004)
1. Wide of Gate of Heavenly Peace and Mao Zedong portrait at the Forbidden City's entrance
2. Mao portrait with traffic
3. People on street
4. Tiananmen Square with flag
5. Tilt up from flame in lantern to lighting of Olympic torch, pullout to show executive director of Athens 2004 Olympic Committee Marton Simitsek walking to hand torch to China's Politburo Standing Committee member Li Chang Chun
6. Tilt down from emblem on the Great Hall of the People to show Yu Zai Qing, deputy director of the state sports administration, chosen as the first Chinese to carry the torch
7. Torch flame
8. Pull out of Li Chang Chun handing torch to Yu Zai Qing
9. Students waving China and Olympic flags on Tiananmen Square
10. Flags
11. Yu Zai Qing starting to run at sound of starting gun
12. Officials applause
13. Wide push in to Yu running
14. Wide Yu running on Chang'an Avenue
15. Zoom in to Yu jogging
16. Press van on street in front of Mao's portrait
17. Reverse shot of torch carrier Ruan Ye running
18. Women in colourful costumes drum dancing
19. Tilt up from drum to face of woman
20. Back of Ruan Ye running with torch
STORYLINE:
The Beijing leg of the 2004 Athens Olympics torch relay kicked off Wednesday in the heart of the Chinese capital, with basketball star Yao Ming among the sports celebrities on deck to carry the flame during the fifth stop on its unprecedented around-the-world journey.
"Today, the sacred flame of the Olympiad brings brightness, courage and solidarity to Beijing," Liu Qi, president of the city's Olympics organising committee, said at the torch-lighting ceremony held under sunny skies at the steps of the Great Hall of the People, the seat of China's legislature.
Yu Zai Qing, China's IOC member, was the first of 148 torch bearers.
About a thousand middle school children waving miniature Chinese and Olympics flags attended the ceremony, which also marks the first time the flame has been carried on the mainland.
The flame arrived in Beijing from Seoul on Tuesday and was carried to a section of the Great Wall, where a welcome ceremony was held.
It's in Beijing for two days because the city is hosting the 2008 Olympics.
On Wednesday, the flame was to pass historic sites such as the Forbidden City and the Temple of Heaven on the 50-kilometre (31-mile) route which ends at the Summer Palace, the former imperial resort in the city's northwest.
Yao, the Chinese NBA star, was slated to carry the torch to ignite a ceremonial cauldron before a celebration at the palace, organisers said.
Other scheduled torchbearers include former Olympic table tennis champion Deng Yaping and gymnast Sang Lan, who was paralyzed from the waist down in a fall.
The torch is to be carried 46,800 miles/75,300 kilometres across six continents, 27 countries and 33 cities by about 11 (t) thousand runners.
It is scheduled to travel to New Delhi next.
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