摘要
Since the early afternoon,Hou Yong(pseudonym)has been watching the sky for the return of one of his 50 racing pigeons as it finds its way home from nearly 700 kilometers away in a pigeon race on April 29.The previous morning,the 60-year-old Beijing resident had brought the 2-year-old bird to the Guang'an Gymnasium as his sole entry to the Beijing Xicheng District Racing Pigeon Association(BXDRPA).There,the bird and 1,181 of its fellow racers were loaded into nine-layered metalcages on a truck and transported to a parking lot in Zhoukou,Henan province,where they were released atprecisely 6:08 a.m.the following day to fly back to their respective homes in Beijing.
