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Overseas Chinese to Join 'Singing on the Yellow River'

At least 500 overseas Chinese will attend the first international singing festival on the Yellow River, China's mother river, scheduled for June 10-12 in North China's Shanxi Province, according to organizers of the event.

Among the overseas participants will be 300 chorus singers from Singapore, Australia, Malaysia, New Zealand and Hong Kong and about 200 cheerleaders, officials of the organizing committee said at a press conference held on May 20.

"All the overseas Chinese performers are from renowned choruses abroad and some conductors used to perform in the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and Austrian Orchestra," said He Zhiyong, a member of the organizing committee.

The official said the event will be held at the Yellow River's Hukou Waterfall, which is where, in 1939, the great Chinese musician Xian Xinghai composed the "Yellow River Cantata," a household song in China that inspired the Chinese people to stand up against Japanese aggression.

He said the event is designed to mark the 60th anniversary of China's victory in its war against Japanese aggression, fought between 1937 and 1945, as well as the centennial of Xian's birth.

On the sideline of the singing festival will be a grand ceremony to mix water taken from eight provinces along the Yellow River into one big bottle, symbolizing the union of the Chinese nation.