100,000 to sing a song at the same time

100,000 to sing a song at the same time

A Guinness Record is set to be created in September when 100,000 people will sing the same song simultaneously, organizers said.

The song, titled "Liuyang River" based on a folk melody in central China's Hunan province, has been popular with generations of Chinese for past decades.

The mass singing has been designated as a major event at the opening ceremony of the province's third tourism festival, to be held from Sept. 12 to 14, at Liuyang City, said to be where the song originated.

According to government officials of Liuyang, hundreds of thousands of people will gather around both banks of the Liuyang River that flows through the city. And 100,000 of them will be singers to perform the song.

Officials said they will seek to list the event in the famous Guinness Book of World Records.