Menk Bateer (L), the first torchbearer, receives the torch from Han Zhiran, secretary of the Hohhot City Committee of the Communist Party of China, during the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games torch relay in Hohhot, capital of north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, on July 8, 2008.

People perform traditional dance to celebrate the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games torch relay in Hohhot, capital of north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, on July 8, 2008.