On 30th October, the 2010 Foreign Friends Walking along Kunming Lake started at Kunming Lake in Summer Palace.
The Foreign Friends Walking along Kunming Lake began in 2001 and was held annually since then. The theme for this year's event, the 10th Foreign Friends Walking along Kunming Lake, was "Happy Life, Scientific Fitness, Beautiful Homes and World Cities". The event aimed to spread the benefits and fun of long walking and it attracted over 800 people including officials of Embassies, staff from Beijing foreign institutions, experts and staff from enterprises and foreign students.