Water theme to mark closing ceremony

After mesmerising the audience with a unique opening ceremony at the Haixinsha Island,the Asian Games organisers are planning to give the participating athletes a fitting send off with a two-hour closing ceremony at the same venue here on Saturday.

Asian pop star and actor Rain Jung Ji-Hoon will also render three songs. Combined with Chinese songs,they will become an integrated performance. We want to show that it is time for Asia,it is the sky of Asia,those are songs of Asia, music director Bian Liunian said.

As in the opening,the closing of the Games will also involve the water bodies and the ceremony would commence with a giant chandelier emerging from the deep-water area of the stage with a sail-shaped red curtain on screens behind. The organisers also plan to use the cauldron,which was lit at the venue at the opening ceremony,together with the chandelier on the stage and the big screens shaped like sails.