Charming Beijing, Passionate Winter Olympics, a photo exhibition illustrating the Chinese capital’s diversified landscape and cultural life as well as Beijingers’ aspirations to host the 2022 Winter Olympics, was launched at the National Library of South Africa in administrative capital Tshwane (formerly known as Pretoria) on September 23.

The latest in a series of colorful events celebrating the Year of China in South Africa, the exhibition, co-hosted by the Beijing Association for Cultural Exchanges and Beijing Review, a leading Chinese news weekly with websites in five languages, comprised 64 photos printed on silk canvas.

The organizers also presented books in Chinese and English to the National Library of South Africa to enable readers to know more about Beijing and China. They included titles such as Xi Jinping: The Governance of China and Beijing International.

From South Africa the impressive exhibition moves on to Mauritius.