Background of the Founding Ceremony

In June 1949, the Preparatory Conference for the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference decided to hold the Founding Ceremony in Tiananmen Square in Beiping on October 1, 1949.At 3:00 p.m. on October 1, the land was thundering with joy. The two great men, Mao Zedong and Zhu De, the recently inaugurated chairmen of the Central People's Government of the People's Republic of China (PRC), were the first to ascend the Tiananmen Square citadel, one after the other. When Lin Boqiu announced the start, the chairman, vice-chairman and members of the Central People's Government took their places to the sound of the music of the national anthem "March of the Volunteers".

After the end of the three major battles of Liao-Shen, Huaihai and Pingjin, the main force of the Kuomintang waging civil war had been largely wiped out, and the Chinese People's Liberation Army advanced to the northern bank of the Yangtze River. The Chiang dynasty, which had ruled China for 22 years, was in a desperate state of disintegration.

On September 21, 1949, the First Plenary Session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), which was initiated by the Chinese ****anufacturing party and attended by representatives of all democratic parties, people's organizations, regions, the People's Liberation Army (PLA), ethnic minorities, foreign compatriots, and other patriotic elements, ceremoniously opened in Beijing. And announced the formal establishment of the Chinese People's **** and State.

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The p>The significance of the Founding Ceremony:

Domestically, it opened a new era in China's history, China ended its humiliating history of being invaded and enslaved for more than a hundred years, and truly became an independent and autonomous country, and the people of China stood up from then on to be masters of the country.

The international has strengthened the forces of world peace, democracy and socialism, and inspired the oppressed nations and oppressed people of the world to fight for liberation. It shows that China is finally an autonomous country and that the Chinese people can become the heirs of the dragon from the sick man of East Asia.

The founding of the Chinese People's **** and State put an end to the history of the rule of a few exploiters over the vast number of laboring people, and the history of imperialist enslavement of the Chinese people of all races, and the Chinese people have been the masters of their country ever since. This is the great victory of Marxism in China, the great victory of Mao Zedong Thought, which combines the basic principles of Marxism with the concrete practice of the Chinese revolution.

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