Chinese President Xi declares 19th Asian Games open in Hangzhou (updated)
HANGZHOU, Sept. 23 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Xi Jinping declared the 19th Asian Games open on Saturday night at the lotus-shaped Hangzhou Olympic Sports Center Stadium in the capital of east China's Zhejiang Province.
The Games' opening ceremony reached its climax with an unprecedented digital cauldron-lighting ceremony, wherein millions of torchbearers transformed the digital flames into a digital human fig