(Beijing, August 8) To mark the first anniversary of the Beijing Olympic and Paralympic Games and to meet the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the First National Fitness Day was launched in Beijing's Olympic Park on August 8, 2009, where a total of 33,996 people from all walks of life practicing a spectacular 24-Form Taijiquan which rewrote the Guinness world record for the number of people practicing Taijiquan simultaneously.

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