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GLASGOW, Britain Authentic Patrick Mahomes II Jersey , July 23 (Xinhua) -- The Queen Elizabeth II on Wednesday night formally announced the opening of the 20th Commonwealth Games in Scotland's largest city of Glasgow.


Reading her message in the Queen's Baton to welcome the athletes at Celtic Park, the Queen stressed "the shared value and ambition" of the Commonwealth.


The final Queen's Baton relay was carried by Britain's six gold medal Olympian Chris Hoy, who grew up in Edinburgh, capital of Scotland.


Earlier Authentic Breeland Speaks Jersey , the opening ceremony paid tribute to the 298 victims of the crashed Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, under the proposal of Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond, who welcomed the athletes to Scotland.


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Joined by her husband the Duke of Edinburgh, Queen Elizabeth II entered the opening ceremony site in a Rolls-Royce car, followed by the audience's upstanding and singing of the British national anthem "God Save the Queen".


More than 4 Mitch Morse Jersey ,500 athletes from 71 Commonwealth nations and territories paraded in a one-hour journey from the Athlete's Village in Dalmarnock in southeast of Glasgow, which is close to Celtic Park.


Guided by the Scottish Aberdeen Terrier led by a staff with the delegation's name on the dog's back, each delegation entered the opening ceremony in regional order.


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The Games featuring 261 events in 17 sports in 11 days of competition begin on Thursday with diving to be held at the Royal Commonwealth Pool in Edinburgh.


The closing ceremony takes place on Aug. 3 at Hampden Stadium, which has been transformed into an athletics venue with 44,000 seats during the Games.


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by Xinhua writers Qu Junya， Ouyang Wei


BEIJING， March 23 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Premier Li Keqiang's official visits to Australia and New Zealand are drawing global attention， particularly as the two countries hold striking trade surpluses with China.


The past few years have witnessed closer trade ties between China and the two Oceanian states. Their surpluses illustrate that China has not been deliberately pursuing surpluses in trade with other countries -- a fact that makes the free trade ride China offers for common development and prosperity more charming.


A huge outward demand from China's economic structural reform and consumption upgrade made this happen and will continue to do so， benefitting its trading partners


A free trade deal signed in December 2015 enabled a trade surplus of 33.5 billion U.S. dollars for Australia in 2016， in a bilateral trade relationship worth 107.8 billion dollars. China has been its largest trading partner， market for exports and source of imports for eight years in a row.


"We have seen what 6.7 percent growth (of China) got us last year. We saw our mining exports went up by 12 percent to China， our services exports went up by 21 percent，" said James Laurenceson， Australian economist and deputy director of the Australia-China Relations Institute at the University of Technology Sydney.


In November， New Zealand began negotiations to upgrade its free trade deal with China. In 2016， bilateral trade grew to close to 11.9 billion dollars， nearly tripling that in 2008.


Amid a global economic downturn， New Zealand saw its gross domestic product grow by 3.1 percent in 2016， while Australia saw solid growth for years. In the past two decades， Australia's working and middle classes enjoyed an increase of 40 percent in household incomes when adjusted for inflation.


Analysts attribute the two countries' economic performances， which remain quite outstanding for Western developed economies， partly to an increasingly close economic and trade relationship with China. Particularly， free trade deals with China have brought more opportunities to businesses and tangible benefits to their peoples.


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