Even the spectacular fireworks display at...

Essentially, the Chinese must have reinvented the firework technology, as the products they used produced no smoke and left no reddish paper scraps scattered around the place as ordinary fireworks do.

Considering that pyrotechnics was initially invented in China, this new invention means the Chinese civilization should be credited with a double achievement.

The "clean fireworks" story is one of the finer points that have in fact created a certain image of this year"s event in people"s minds. Although the exhibition still has until the end of October to run, the opening ceremony on May 1 coupled with first international media responses have already made it clear what the event is about, whom it targets and what benefits it will have.

There are two different attitudes though, the local and foreign. Quite predictably, the foreign public decided, without giving it much thought and still impressed by the Beijing Olympics, that China was showing off again, showcasing

Pages: [1] 2 3 4 5