A work team will be set up this year to prepare for the torch relay.
About 70 Chinese cities and 28 cities outside China will be covered along the route for the Beijing Games' torch relay.
The torch will also go to the top of Mount Everest as it is known in the west. This has never been done before.
The slogan of the Beijing Games One World, One Dream will also be the theme of the torch relay. Through the torch relay, we hope to promote the Olympic spirit of peace, friendship and progress globally and send the good wishes of Chinese people to the whole world.