At Games' end, Beijing takes baton

Beijing stole the show at the closing ceremony of the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics on Sunday by presenting a high-tech handover performance at the gala finale to herald the start of Olympic Beijing time.

The extinguishing of the Olympic flame in Pyeongchang, the Republic of Korea, on Sunday marked the beginning of a new four-year cycle to the 2022 Beijing Winter Games after Beijing Mayor Chen Jining received the Olympic flag from his Pyeongchang counterpart Shim Jaeguk.

Following the flag handover, an eight-minute show directed by renowned film producer Zhang Yimou welcomes the world to Beijing in a high-tech visual feast, facilitated by transparent projection screens playing images of modern China powered by robots skating with human artists disguised as pandas.