NANJING, Sept. 2 (Xinhua) -- The Beijing Paralympic Torch Relay in Nanjing concluded on Tuesday after the flame lighted some cultural sites in this city with tremendous heritage.

    Sixty carriers took part in the three-kilometer relay in the capital of Jiangsu, a province located along the east coast of the country.

    When Zhou Zengfu, the final carrier, lit the cauldron near the Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum, where the founder of Ming Dynasty Zhu Yuanzhang was buried, the Nanjing leg of the torch relay ended. The relay started from Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum.

    The Beijing Paralympic torch relay, with "transcendence, integration and equality" as its theme, shall cover 13,181 kilometers in nine days - passing 11 Torch Relay cities which are selected from as many provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government.

    Some 850 Chinese and international torchbearers will run along the "Ancient China" and "Modern China" routes, symbolizing a grand feat for "persons without a disability and persons with a disability running together to jointly build a harmonious society."

    The two routes will converge in Beijing on September 5 in the run-up to the opening of the Paralympic Games.