Yan's brush strokes mark historic moment

As the Beijing Olympics approaches, calligrapher Yan Gongda has produced a work to honor the night seven years ago when the city was awarded the Games.

Yan, vice-president of Chinese Calligraphers Association and professor at two universities, recorded in cursive script the statement by He Zhenliang, honorary chairman of the Chinese Olympic Committee, with the title "My Chinese Heart".

The 69-cm-wide, 16.40-m-long work of 276 characters presents a powerful and majestic record of the night in Moscow seven years before when Beijing was officially awarded the Games.