The areas close to Beijing's lavish Olympic sites, are being further enhanced by the placement of 100 sculptures surrounding the venues.

Beijing shows to the world that it is not only as a modern, cosmopolitan, sporting city, but also a city of Art. The 100 sculptures also form a part of China's promise that these will be "the People's Olympics".

The one hundred sculptures were selected from over two thousand submissions. The selection process began in 2005. Artists all over the world were invited to submit their sculptures to be displayed during the Beijing Olympics. Half of the submission were done by foreign artists. Among those, 19 were created by world-renowned sculptors like Ralfonso of Switzerland and Zadok Ben David of Israel.