Guangzhou will bid farewell to the inaugural Asian Para Games on Sunday night and in the mind of APC President, a gold medal should be awarded to the Games, which is labelled as a benchmark for the future editions to follow.

"What can I say? These have been truly superb and memorable Games. It is a real pity that they must come to a close tomorrow night," said Dato' Zainal Abu Zarin, President of the Asian Paralympic Committee (APC).

"China may well top the medal table by some distance, but if gold medals could be given out for staging a superb Paralympic events, then you would be even further ahead," said the president during a news briefing on Saturday.

The Guangzhou 2010 Asian Para Games is the first Asian Para Games held after the Asian Paralympic Committee came into being in 2006.

These Games attracted 2,512 athletes from 41 member countries and regions of the Asian Paralympic Family, who took part in a total of 19 sports.

Also involved in these Games were 1,286 team officials, 1,098 technical officials and 2,558 professionals from 185 media organizations from China, Asia and around the world.

"Over the past seven days, the athletes, the finest paralympic sports men and women from around Asia, participated a series of exciting competitions during which there were many outstanding achievement," said Chen Guo, deputy Secretary General of the Guangzhou Asian Para Games Organizing Committee (GAPGOC).