Beijing round the clock
(China Daily)
Updated: 2007-08-08 12:13

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Wynoham James from the US and his friends have Beijing roast duck for dinner at Xiao Wang's Home Restaurant near Ritan Park.

In a recent campaign to clean up restaurants throughout the city, Beijing gives ratings from A to D to its 30,000 restaurants. Grade A means they have passed the most stringent standard, while grade D means failure and closure.

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Tan Wenyan, a tourist from Southwest China's Guizhou Province, buys a set of Fuwa mascots for her son at the Fine Arts Building at Wangfujing.

Numbers Games

There more 251 licensed Olympics vendors in the capital and more than 900 nationwide.

On November 11, 2005, BOCOG launched the five mascots to mark the 1,000-day countdown to the opening of the Games and also the licensed product program.

Priced from about 50 yuan ($6.5) to 290,000-yuan ($38,233), Olympic memorabilia sales in China are booming and even exorbitant prices are not deterring enthusiasts.

It is expected that sales of Olympic memorabilia will reach 8 billion yuan ($1.05 billion) by 2008.

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