Beijing Welcomes You

Beijing Welcomes You (simplified Chinese: 北京欢迎你; traditional Chinese: 北京歡迎你; pinyin: Běijīng huānyíng nǐ) is a feature song for the 100-day countdown of the 2008 Summer Olympics held in Beijing, China.[1] The song comprises one hundred famous artists and entertainers from mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Japan and South Korea. Its music video includes a montage of scenes from all over Beijing. It features the largest contingent of famous artists in a single Chinese-language music video.[2]

"Beijing Welcomes You in your dreams"
Song by various artists
from the album The Official Album for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games
LanguageMandarin
Released17 April 2008 (2008-04-17)
RecordedFirst half of 2008
StudioVarious
GenreMandopop
Length6:58
LabelChina Record
Composer(s)Xiao Ke
Lyricist(s)Albert Leung

The 5 characters in the original Chinese title of the song ("Bei Jing Huan Ying Ni") were used for the names of the "Fuwa" mascots which symbolized the 2008 Summer Olympics: Bei-Bei: fish, Jing-Jing: giant panda, Huan-Huan: the fire, Ying-Ying: gazelle, and Ni-Ni: swallow.

The song runs over six minutes in length. Since its release the song has been extremely popular with the Chinese public.

(in order of appearance)

Locations depicted

The song's music video features the above entertainers appearing in some of Beijing's most renowned sites and locations, as well as the stadiums of the Olympic Green; in order of appearances, some of them are listed below:

See also

References
  1. Men, Rui (January 20, 2022). "奥运歌曲14年：从《北京欢迎你》到《一起向未来》" [14 Years of Olympic Songs: From "Beijing Welcomes You" to "Towards the Future Together"].
  2. Yi, Misansheng (November 4, 2019). "集齐再多明星，这首歌的奇迹也无法超越" [No matter how many stars are collected, the miracle of this song cannot be surpassed].
  • "Official Website (Chinese)". Archived from the original on 2008-09-06. Retrieved 2008-08-04.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
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