A 14-member Chinese team led by Jeng Weiyu, deputy director of Guangzhou Asian Games promotion department, arrived in Pokhara in Nepal on Saturday to collect water from different lakes over there.

The team arrived in Pokhara, a tourist destination of Nepal, to publicize the 16th Asian Games which is scheduled to be held in Guangzhou, China, in November 2010.

The team will collect water from Fewa, a famous lake of Nepal in Pokhara, some 180 kilometers west of Nepali capital Kathmandu.

There are three members from the Games' organizing committee along with some journalists.

The team came to Nepal in the request of Nepal Olympic Committee.

China will collect water from 45 Asian countries and regions and ultimately mix that to the Pearl River, which flows through Guangzhou.

(Xinhua News Agency June 22, 2009)