Walled city hosts final leg

JINGZHOU, Hubei: Anyone who has read the Chinese classic Three Kingdoms will be familiar with Jingzhou, as a third of the battles mentioned in the book were fought there, some 1,700 years ago.

Yesterday, however, the city on the Yangtze played host to a more peaceful event - the Olympic torch relay.

The Jingzhou leg was the last of three in Hubei province, after Wuhan, the provincial capital, and Yichang, home to Three Gorges Dam.