Fireworks portrays Qinghai-Tibet Railway, Shenzhou space shuttle

　　The fireworks portraying a train running on the Qinghai-Tibet Railway lights the Tian‘anmen Square during the grand evening gala celebrating the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People‘s Republic of China, in Beijing, capital of China, Oct. 1, 2009. (Xinhua/Li Ga)

　　BEIJING, Oct. 1 (Xinhua) -- Amid applauses and excited exclamations from the audience, a firework drawing portraying a train running on the Qinghai-Tibet Railway lighted the Tian‘anmen Square and dazzled all on the scene.

　　The firework drawing was displayed on a screen-like installation on the Square. Gunpowder was fixed on thousands of spots on the screen and were lighted in a preset order to "draw" pictures.

　　fireworks dportraying a train running on the Qinghai-Tibet Railway lights the Tian‘anmen Square during the grand evening gala celebrating the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People‘s Republic of China, in Beijing, capital of China, Oct. 1, 2009. (Xinhua Photo)

　　The show was part of an evening gala held in the heart of Beijing to celebrate the 60th founding anniversary of the People‘s Republic of China.

　　Organizers of the gala also employed fireworks to shape a Shenzhou spacecraft blasting off to the skies of Beijing.

　　Performers danced across the Tian‘anmen Square to songs that won the hearts of billions of Chinese in the past decades, as the gala puts on its third group dancing themed the "brand-new China," and turned the Square into a sea of colors.