"Kungfu Soccer", one of the exhibits at 2008 Olympics Landscape Sculpture Traveling Exhibition [Photo: CRIENGLISH.com]

The 2008 Olympics Landscape Sculpture Travelling Exhibition was held at the China Millennium Monument on Sunday morning, in honour of the one-year countdown to the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.

As one of the activities organized by the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad (BOCOG), the exhibition displays over three hundred pieces and sets of landscape sculpture, as well as photos of the worldwide roving exhibition, which was launched on August 8, 2005.

The exhibits, made of bronze, iron, aluminium, stainless steel and other raw materials, were selected from 2,450 entries submitted by artists from 82 countries.

Until now they have been displayed in nearly twenty cities at home and abroad, such as Tianjin, Xiamen, Hong Kong, Macao, London, Los Angeles and Seoul.

The exhibition will run from August 5 to 12 and the admission is free.