Olympic Torch says goodbye to Zunyi

Torchbearer Wang Daojin (C), a 93-year-old Red Army soldier receives the torch from Mu Degui (R), mayor of Zunyi City at the launching ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games torch relay in Zunyi, southwest China's Guizhou Province on June 14, 2008. (Photo credit: Xinhua)
(BEIJING, June 14) -- Torchbearer Yuan Renguo arrived at the Renchuan Stadium at 9:50 a.m. on June 14, bringing to an end the Zunyi leg of the Olympic Torch Relay in southwest China's Guizhou Province. The next stop for the torch is Chongqing.
The torch set off on its 6.3-km journey this morning from the site of the Zunyi Conference, a meeting of the Communist Party of China that took place January, 1935, during the Long March.
Mao Zedong took command of the military and became the leader of the Communist Party after the conference, which has long been branded as a turning point in the history of the party.
The Zunyi leg of the Torch Relay, which involved 208 torchbearers, passed through Ziyin Road, Shilong Road, Fenghuang South Road, Fenghuangshan Cultural Center, a monument to the Red Army, Fenghuang North Road, Shanghai Road, Zunyi Normal College, Tianjin Road and Nanjing Road.
Wang Daojin, a Red Army soldier who is now 93 years-old, ran as the first torchbearer. Gui Yang, a firefighter who found three survivors in Sichuan after the May 12 earthquake, and Yang Changfeng, a farmer known for his feat of running across China, were also torchbearers.