Chongqing China
Chongqing is in China and is one of the largest cities in the world. Chongqing has a population of over 3,000,000.
Flame ends Chongqing tour
(CHONGQING, June 16) — Chinese boxing champion Li Bin reached the Great Hall of the People here at 10:30 a.m. on Monday with the Olympic flame and lit the cauldron to mark the end of the Torch Relay in Chongqing.
The 17-kilometer relay had begun at 8:10 a.m. with Go world champion Gu Li as the first of 208 torchbearers.
BOCOG Executive Vice-President Jiang Xiaoyu; BOCOG member Tian Maijiu; Chongqing Vice-Mayor Huang Qifan; Minister of the Publicity Department of the Chongqing Municipal Committee of the CPC; and other officials attended the closing ceremony.
The Torch Relay will continue in Urumqi on Tuesday
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