Last torchbearer Wang Chunlu, a Winter Games short-track silver medalist, lit the cauldron at Changchun World Sculpture Park at 10: 04 a.m. on Monday to end the Changchun leg of the Olympic torch relay. The cities of Songyuan and Jilin will host the torch on Tuesday.
The Olympic torch relay kicked off in Changchun at 8:08 a.m. Altogether 218 torchbearers carried the Olympic flame along this nine-km-long journey.
Wang Jiaqi, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, was the first torchbearer.
Changchun is the capital of Jilin Province, located in the northeast of the People's Republic of China. The city has a population of 7.4 million.
(BOCOG July 14, 2008)