BEIJING, Sept. 6 (Xinhua) -- The Beijing Paralympic Games has hit the headlines of the international media in the past few days, with all expecting another success following the Summer Olympics in the Chinese capital.

    Germany's DPA news agency said Friday that China has made great efforts in preparing the Sept. 6-17 Paralympics, as it did for the Aug. 8-24 Games, which won the country lots of praise.

    The disabled-bodied athletes and citizens will continue to enjoy clean air and smooth-flowing traffic as Beijing keeps in place measures to limit the number of vehicles on roads and factory operations, DPA said.

    It quoted Philip Craven, president of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC), as saying that Beijing's service to the disabled is absolutely the first rate. The Beijing Games will turn a new page in the history of the Paralympics, the IPC chief said.

    The German Junge Welt newspaper said Thursday that the Beijing Paralympics will be opened Saturday evening with a grand ceremony in the National Stadium known as the Bird's Nest.

    The newspaper said Beijing has installed more facilities for the disabled to make their daily life more convenient, citing the elevator fixed at the Great Wall and 2,000 kneeling buses for the disabled.

    The Japanese Tokyo Shimbun newspaper published an editorial Friday, saying the Beijing Paralympics will be opened in grandiosity and audiences have the same enthusiasm to cheer for the disabled-bodied athletes as during the Summer Olympics. The editorial expressed hope that the Beijing Paralympics will draw more attention to sports for the disabled.

    Reuters said Thursday that Beijing has "spent billions of dollars upgrading its infrastructure for the Olympics, including new subways and roads, but also spent 600 million yuan ($87.76 million) specifically on improving access in public places for the disabled."

    The Los Angeles Times said in an article titled "Paralympic boon to China's disabled:"

    "If the Summer Olympics were a coming-out party for China as a whole, the Paralympic Games will be an even greater event for the country's disabled. In preparation for the 11-day international competition that opens Saturday, Beijing is being retrofitted with ramps for wheelchairs and street crossing signals for the blind. The city also has acquired 2,000 'kneeling buses'."

    "Even the Great Wall, once so forbidding to invaders, is now accessible to the disabled with the recent installation of a double-doored elevator and ramp that allow wheelchairs to enter and exit in the Badaling section close to the capital," the article said.