Photo: BOCOG president Liu Qi delivers a speech

Liu Qi, member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, Secretary of the Beijing Municipal CPC Committee and President of the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad (BOCOG), delivers a speech

(BEIJING, August 8) -- Tiananmen Square turned into a festival of jubilation Wednesday night as people from across China and from around the world gathered to celebrate the one-year countdown to the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. On the occasion of this grand ceremony, International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Jacques Rogge presented Beijing 2008 Olympic Games invitation letters to various National Olympic Committees (NOCs).