大象传媒

"This is a good day for my country," declared Dong Wei.

It was the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics - and around 50 students gathered in the Market Place to watch the event.

The scholars were all from China and were in Derby as part of a programme to improve their English language.

They were entertained by Wai Ling who took his costume along to perform a tradirional Chinese Lion Dance.

The students joined in the countdown to the start of the ceremony and cheered enthusiastically as China put on its show-piece event.

The closing ceremony will also be celebrated in style under the Big Screen - Derby is hosting a 'handover' party on August 24th to mark the Games being handed from China to London.

There'll be an afternoon and evening of entertainment - culminating in a performance by Gabriella Cilmi (use the link on the right for more details).