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| General Information abuot Beijing 2008 |
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On 13 July 2001 at the 112th IOC Session in Moscow, Beijing was elected the Host City for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad in 2008. The vote followed in line with the recommendation of the IOC Evaluation Commission that "a Beijing Games would leave a unique legacy to China and to sports. The Commission is confident that Beijing could organise an excellent Games".
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| General Information abuot China |
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China refers to a number of states and cultures that have existed in continental East Asia for the last 4000 years. Depending on one's point of view, modern China can be described as a single civilization or multiple civilizations, as a single state or multiple states, and as a single nation or multiple nations. Chinese people tend to stress unity of a singular Chinese nation and unbroken continuity of a single Chinese civilization throughout history, while other observers tend to point out profound changes to Chinese civilization throughout history and internal diversity within modern China.
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| General Information abuot Beijing |
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King Wu was the first to declare Beijing the capital city in 1057 BC. Subsequently, the city has gone by the names of Ji, Zhongdu, Dadu, and finally Beijing when the Ming Dynasty Emperor ChengZu chose the name in 1421. Beijing was also known as Peking by the Western world before 1949.
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