Wu Bangguo (2nd L), chairman of the Standing Committee of China's National People's Congress, Yoshio Utsumi (2nd R), International Telecommunication Union (ITU) secretary general, Muhamad Tunus (1st R), winner of the Nobel peace prize 2006, and Donald Tsang, chief executive of China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, launch the light-up ceremony of the ITU World Telecom 2006 in Hong Kong, south China, on Dec. 3, 2006.

The opening ceremony of the ITU World Telecom 2006 kicked off here on Sunday.