Pre-ceremony Performance
The site of pre-ceremony performance is the Small Stage to the north of the field. After Pre-ceremony performance, the hosts give interactive guidance to the audience for 40 minutes. The pre-ceremony performance included a series of musical performances.
- Military Music Performance: Welcome Music
- Folk Music Performance: Good News from Beijing Reaches the Border Villages
- Drum Music Performance: Ebullient Festival
- Male Solo: Come on!
- Male-female Duet: Happy Gathering in Beijing
- Lead and Chorus: Every one is No.1 performed by Andy Lau
- Male-female Duet: Miracle in the East
- Grand Chorus: The Blue Danube
- Male-female Duet and Chorus: The Drinking Song
- Grand Chorus: Ode to Joy
- Chorus: Beijing, Beijing, I Love Beijing
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