(BEIJING, July 9) -- A week-long exhibition on the progress of the preparatory work for the Beijing Olympic Games was launched in the co-host city of Qingdao on Sunday.

On a 700-square-meter space of the Qingdao Library, the exhibits, including over 300 photos and a number of objects and sand boxes, tell the visitors about the construction of the Olympic venues, the work to promote civilized manners and the Olympic Movement in China. New information and publicity technologies such as holographic stereo-projection, multimedia audio and video display were used to increase the appeal of the exhibition.

The BOCOG Media and Communications Department seized the opportunity to present copies of the Olympic Reader to the city's primary and secondary school students. The Reader is a set of books for Olympic training compiled by BOCOG (the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad).

The exhibition will tour other co-host cities and major cities across the nation to arouse interest in the Olympics.

A poster on the Olympics is shown at the ceremony

Snapshot of the ceremony