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Weifang Kite Festival 2013

This four day festival runs from April 20th through to April 23rd. There are many events planned at the huge event including a Ten Thousand participant kite performace and Luminescent Nighttime Kiting Displays.

Here is the Official Event Link

Here is a web artical on Weifang as the World Kite Capital

youtube videos:

2012 video from a RAJ news story
video from the 2008 festival on an overcast morning as they launch a eight hundred and eighty eight kite train
Eighteen seconds of video showing the enormous green field at the festival site.
A doccumentary segment on a Kite Factory in Weifang, China. a somewhat interesting glimpse behind the bamboo curtain.
Kites exhibited at a Weifang Kite factory and museum