CONTENTS

Capital Talk

	“Meet in Beijing” for daily open-air and live performances
	Tiananmen theater under way
	Top photographers shoot city
	Heineken Beat show has genuinely exciting line-up
	Mayor meets French

Life&Times

Out&About

	Shunyi District in focus
	Flowers across the capital

City Beat

What’s Hot
	From wireless thingies on models to little model people on wires
Shopping
	Shopping: Spring shoes, shirts and sports duds
	Beijing in My Focus: Win a brilliant BTM bag with your brilliant snap
Wining&Dining:
	Fresh air and fresher fish
Hotel Bulletin Board:
	Highlights of hotels” promotions in May
House&Home:
	Villas look comfortable at Capital Paradise
What’s On:
	Where to go and what to do

Photographers Shoot Beijing

Fifty top foreign photographers and 20 renowned Chinese photographers will come to Beijing for a one-week shoot May 16 to 23.

Beijing Foreign Cultural Exchanges Service Center will take the 70 photographers around typical capital spots and encourage shots on the theme of “Beijing -- history, culture, people.”

This is the first time Beijing has hosted such a grand photography exchange program. The best pictures taken will be included in a photo album and exhibition to honor the Beijing 2000 Sixth Summit Conference of Major Cities of the World.

Most of the photographers have won prestigious international awards. Many are travel photographers or photojournalists, having published their own photography collections and held personal exhibitions.

Three of the four American photographers are contributors to National Geographic.

Gultekin Cizgen of Turkey has traveled 66 countries on photography expeditions, and has published eight personal photography work collections and six books on photographic theory. He postponed his personal photography shows in Canada and Japan in May to come to Beijing.

French photographer Laurence Vidal has been to China several times, and has held five exhibitions on China in France. Her album “Beijing Peking Opera” was well received in France.

Czech photographers Karol Benicky and son Matus Benicky went to China last year and held a series of activities to promote China in the Czech Republic. They return this month, and plan to publish an album “China -- 2000”.

A Dutch couple “70-year-old Johanna De Ruig and 68-year-old Willem De Ruig “ are professionals of three-dimensional photography. “Beijing is so beautiful. Its people are so friendly. We will never forget,” said the couple of their visit to Beijing last year. They will shoot three-dimensional photos of Beijing.

Organized by Beijing Foreign Cultural Exchanges Service Center, the event is sponsored by the Information Office of Beijing Municipal Government, Foreign Affairs Office of Beijing Municipal Government, Beijing 2008 Olympic Bid Committee and China Art Photography Association. The mayor of Beijing Liu Qi is the honorary chairman of the organizing committee.

Foreign photographers:

Alexei Beliantchev (Russia), Angelika Kampfer (Austria), Anna Beata Bohdziewicz (Poland), Bruce Dale (USA), Duby Amnon Tal (Israel), Ekaterini Karanika (Belgium), Enrico Bossan (Italy), Fawzan Hussein Ahmed (India), Friedrick Simak (Austria), Geoffrey Stanley Brown (Australia), Georges Azenstarck (France), Gideon Mendel (United Kingdom), Gilles Perrin (France), Gultekin Cizgen (Turkey), Hans Fleischner (Austria), Hans Reinertsen (Norway), Herbert Thulani Mabuza (South Africa), Jan Asplund (Sweden), Johanna De Ruig (Netherlands), John Peter Hogg (South Africa), Karol Benicky (Czech Republic), Laurence Vidal (France), Leo Van Velzen (Netherlands), Lois Conner (USA), Mahmoud Mohamed Abdel Fattah (Egypt), Matus Benicky (Czech Republic), Michel Boulianne (Canada), Michel Lambert (Canada), Pascal Michel Delcey (France), Paul Alexander Chesley (USA), Pawel Rabiej (Poland), Raymond Gehman (USA), Robert Gordon Henderson (Australia), Rui Faquini (Brazil), Shahidul Alam (Bangladesh), Sham Manche Kar (India), Shirin Shawky Mostafa (Egypt), Steve J Benbow (United Kingdom), Tan How Jwat (Singapore), Tan Lip Seng (Singapore), Teo Tiat How (Singapore), Wang Xiaohui (Germany), Willem G De Ruig (Netherlands), Xu Pei (Japan), Yo Nagaya (Japan) and Zeng Nian (France).

Chinese photographers:

Yu Zhixin (Liaoning), Tu Deng (Tibet), Wang Yao (Beijing), Wang Zheng (Ningxia), Liu Lei (Beijing), Liu Xin (Xi'an), Liu Shizhao (Sichuan), Ren Guo?n (Beijing), Zhuang Mingjing (Taiwan), Zhu Xianmin (Beijing), Chen Changfen (Hunan), Meng Renquan (Beijing), Wu Jialin (Yunnan), Zhang Tongsheng (Hebei), Wu Zhiyi (Beijing), He Yanguang (Beijing), Yuan Xuejun (Sichuan), Huang Wen (Beijing), Hui Huaijie (Shaanxi), Yong He (Shanghai) and Xie Hailong (Beijing).