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Postcards from Beijing - II

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The setting sun is reflected off the Jing Guang Centre in Beijing`s central business district (CBD) on July 6, 2008.

The Jing Guang Centre, completed in 1990 and until two years ago the tallest building in the Chinese capital, is now dwarfed by the unfinished 74-floor China World Trade Center Tower 3 (R).

Waves of tourists expected to converge on Beijing will look up to see a stunning new skyline that China`s leaders hope will showcase the nation as a modern world power, despite being a poverty-stricken backwater just thirty years ago studded with a few dull Stalinist monuments grafted onto an ancient and decaying imperial capital.

The transformation has taken place at dizzying speed in the years leading up the Olympics with around 10,000 sites under construction, many of which will still be unfinished when the Games start on August 8.

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