500 Thousand Celebrate Rat Year with Fireworks in Guangzhou

Source: www.lifeofguangzhou.com

More than 500 thousand people turned out to watch a fireworks display to welcome the Lunar New Year in Guangzhou Thursday despite cold winter days in Guangzhou recently.

Fireworks light up the sky over Pearl River in Guangzhou on Thursday night, February 7, to celebrate 2008 the year of rat. [Guangzhou Daily photo]

Starting 8:30 p.m. over Pearl River, the display lasted for 30 minutes, 5 minutes more than last year.

Spectators were impressed by a pattern of Arabic numerals "2008" displayed in 150 metre-high sky, which stands for the year of Beijing Olympic Games. With a diameter of 60 metres, this new style of firework pattern lasted for 40 seconds.

Five percent of the fireworks this year were imported from Japan. 

(By Shanna Chu) 

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Editor: Shanna Chu