The logo of the 16th Asian Games Guangzhou 2010 is shown in this picture. The logo, a combination of the Five-Barn Sculpture (Guangzhou goes by the alias of the Ram City) and an Asian Games torch was unveiled in Guangzhou November 27, 2006. [Xinhua]

The performance of Chinese characteristics, named "Oriental Verve", is aimed to show beauty of South China, especially the southern city of Guangzhou.

"We want the performance to give the spectators a feeling that we welcome friends from all over the world. We will be a hospitable host," said Xu Hui, an official from the Guangzhou Asian Games organizing committee who arrived here two days ago.

Xu declined to go into detail but said elements of distinct Chinese culture would surely be used just as it was in Athens.

In the closing ceremony in 2004 Athens Olympic Games, "Chinese Eight Minutes", directed by China's most famous director Zhang Yimou, featured Peking Opera, red lanterns and traditional Chinese music instruments