The most popular photos on today's front pages feature some children from Beijing School for the Blind smelling flowers at Beijing Botanical Garden. It is reported that the garden is the only place which can look at and smell flowers in Beijing, because there is a special part of the garden dedicated to flower fragrances.

All leading headlines are about Hu Jintao formally inviting Taiwan's People First Party (FPP) Chairman James Soong to visit the mainland.

The pictured front page is from Beijing Times .