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YANG Yongsheng, director of the NewsDepartment of the China Post Group, isexcited. "It is incredible that audiencesgreatly outnumbered expectations," hesays of Beijing's Olympic Expo, which opened on Au-gust 8, 2008, the same day as the Olympicopening ceremony. The 11-day exhi-bition attracted 80,000 visitors,catching the attention ofthe International Olym-pic Committee (IOC),which announced thatan expo will now beheld as a regular partof both the summerand winter OlymPicGames.