On the evening of August 12, a fleet of vehicles from the "Red Army First Division" of the Beijing Military Area Command arrived in Beijing. Like the "star-men" performance troupe who did the shows of the "starlight" and the "artistic human-body bird's nest" at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, the performers this time are also servicemen from the same "Red Army First Division" except that this time they are the second performance troupe.

　　They came all the way from their stationed area far away from Beijing to take part in the rehearsal for the opening ceremony of the Paralympics.

　　The leader of the performance troupe Wang Hequan told the reporters that the "star-men" performance troupe of 1,800 officers and men had fulfilled their historic mission with flying colors, and had returned back to the barracks. Some of them would leave the barracks to participate in military trainings. After watching the excellent performance of those "star-men" at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, the servicemen taking part in the rehearsal for the opening ceremony of the Paralympics were burning with ardor in training and vowed to learn from the "star-men" and try their best to do credit to the Olympic Games and win honors for the military banner at the opening ceremony of the Paralympics.

　　August 14 marks the second day of the arrival of the performance troupe in Beijing. The officers and men wasted no time to go to a training base of the Armed Police Force and threw themselves into intense training. On the training site, private He Jianhua said with full of confidence: "We are all soldiers of the 'Red Army First Division', so we will also present the world with a spectacular show as what the 'star-men' did."

　　By Zhang Jifeng, Zhang Liang and Teng Xiaodong

　　(Aug 20, PLA Daily)                                           Editor: Dong Zhaohui