Mountain tourism festival

The 2009 Daxishan Tourism and Mountain Climbing Festival was held on Saturday at Daxishan (the Great West Mountain) in Beijing's Haidian district.

Sponsored by Haidian's government and the Beijing Tourism Administration, the festival aims to attract people during the eight-day National Day holiday and promote LOHAS (lifestyles of health and sustainability).

The organizing committee invited 60 people who are 60 years old - the same age as the People's Republic of China - to form a special team to climb the Great West Mountain. They wrote their hopes for China's future on a "wall of wishes".

With a forest-coverage rate of more than 85 percent, the Great West Mountain area is one of the most popular places for mountaineers in Beijing.