Shanghai Daily news

Nearly 20,000 people took part in the annual Amway Nutrilite Health Run in Shanghai yesterday morning despite heavy rain.
Organizers planned for this year's run to show support for the 2007 Special Olympics, which will be hosted in Shanghai. Amway China Co Ltd promised to donate 1 yuan (12 US cents) to the Special Olympics for each participant in the run, and several other similar events held yesterday across the country.
The 4-kilometer run started at Zhabei Stadium. At 7:30am yesterday, participants, led by Olympic gold medal winner Wang Junxia, ran around the Daning Greenland and back to the stadium.
"I hesitated for a while seeing it was raining heavily after getting up but I still decided to come. It's significant to do something for the Special Olympics," said Li Zhaohui, a mother who brought her 10-year-old son to the run.
Huang Shengwen, deputy president of Amway China, said he hadn't expected so many people to take part in the event due to the rain.
The run was organized in seven domestic cities this year and Amway says it expects to donate 200,000 yuan in total from the run to the Special Olympics.
The continuous rain cooled down the city dramatically yesterday and is expected to last for several days.