Liu Qi(front L), president of the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad (BOCOG), also the Communist Party of China chief of Beijing, arrives in Athens of Greece on March 29, 2008. [Xinhua]

BEIJING - The Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad (BOCOG) President Liu Qi left Beijing for Greece on March 29 with a delegation to attend the handover ceremony for the Olympic Flame of the Games of the 29th Olympiad. The ceremony will be held in Panathenaikon Stadium in Athens on March 30.

Also accompanying them were State Council Deputy Secretary-General Xiang Zhaolun and Hu Jiayan, Vice Minister of the General Administration of Sport and Vice-President of the Chinese Olympic Committee.