New science and technology museum to open in Beijing

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Beijing residents can now experience science up close & personally, through participation and exhibition. After three years of construction, a new science and technology museum will open in the Chinese capital on Sunday. Ren Ting tells us about the city's new attraction.

The Museum of Chinese Science & Technology covers an area of 40,000 square meters. Activities on hand include popular science exhibitions, Astro-Vision film shows, training-based education programs, and experiment-driven technology presentations.

Beijing's newest museum boasts more than one-thousand creative items. Entering the west hall of the building, 805 balls combine to form an 18-meter-long by 12-meter-wide display. The colorful array can shift into 12 different patterns using its design program. The 47-meter-high double-helix structure reflects basic life science.

Vice chairman of the National People's Congress Standing Committee  Wang Zhaoguo announces the open of the new premises of China  Science and Technology Museum in Beijing, China, on Sept. 16,  2009. The inauguration ceremony of the new premises of China  Science and Technology Museum was held here on Wednesday. The  new premises covers an area of 48,000 square meters with a  construction scale of 102,000 square meters. (Xinhua/Zhang Chuanqi)