The function was organised by the Beijing Traffic Management Bureau and the China Central Television (CCTV) at the Beijing Worker's Stadium, which is also scheduled to host the football quarter-finals and semi-finals during the up-coming Summer Olympics. The venue was at capacity with a crowd of 6000 which included the management team of the Beijing government, and the Ministry of Public Security.
Many Chinese pop stars, most notably Twins and Sun Nan, who holds an impressive resume of being the first Chinese pop singer to tour overseas, as well as the artist who will perform the 2008 Olympic theme song Forever friends.
New Adamson partner Hunan Tian Yin Art Performance Company provided the Adamson system for the show, and the company's head engineer Mi Ning was the FOH engineer for the event. The main flown system comprised of eight Y18s per side. Two ground stacks consisting of six Spektrix and two Spektrix Subs on each side of the stage were used as side-fills for the lateral seating areas. All Adamson speakers were powered with eight Lab.gruppen fP10000Qs, two Lab.gruppen fP3400 and six Lab.gruppen fp6400 amps. Processing was handled by Dolby Lake controllers.
The show was nationally broadcast on the CCTV (China Central Television) programme Happy in China on the Eve of the Chinese New Year.
(Jim Evans)
