(August 10, 2008)

(The author, a senior researcher at the China Research Center for Public Policy of the China Society of Economic Reform)

The torch relay and the opening ceremony implies an ambition for China to go further into space.

Here are the hints:

Entertainers run around a nine-ring globe as singers perform the Olympics' theme song during the opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games in Beijing on August 8, 2008.[Agencies]

Yang Liwei, the first astronaut of manned spacecraft Shenzhou V, was the first torchbearer in Beijing; and the opening ceremony torch was lit by Li Ning after his 'run in-space'.

Meanwhile, the images of "astronauts" and the blue "globe" also displayed orbital visions at the opening ceremony.

Former Chinese gymnast Li Ning carries the Olympic flame as he is lifted to the air during the opening ceremony of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games at the National Stadium August 8, 2008.[Agencies]

The Olympic Games actually represent the development of civilization, and China will take this advantage to show the development of its 5000-year civilization to the world.

The torch of the human civilization was lit in remote ancient, and was passed through the fishing times, slash and burn cultivation times, nomadic times, farming times to cross-seas trade times.

Up till now, there are three types of civilization: cattle-back civilization, horseback civilization and shipboard civilization.

After Soviet Union first sent man to space, the United States hurried to catch up with it eight years later. Chinese made many achievements in the forty years since this moment.

From cattle-back to space, the real cross-times flight is the very ambition of China. The aim of China hosting the Olympic Games is actually to broaden its way to space, not to just grasp gold metals.

This crossing means much more than that of Liu Xiang.

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