The process of the Founding Ceremony is as follows: the first meeting, the beginning of the ceremony, the raising of the national flag (with a simultaneous salute), the reading of proclamations, orders from the headquarters
, a grand military parade, an airplane show, a mass procession, and the launching of a fireworks salute.
On October 1, 1949, at 2 p.m., the first meeting of the Central People's Government Committee was held in the Qinzheng Hall. After the meeting, all the leaders took a car out of the east gate of Zhongnanhai to Tiananmen Square and got off the car to board the building.
3:00 p.m., Secretary General of the Central People's Government Commission Lin Boqu announced the beginning of the ceremony. All were declared inaugurated and the Central People's Government was formally established.
In the majestic melody of the March of the Volunteers, Mao Zedong pressed the electric button, and the first brightly colored five-star red flag of new China was raised. The entire audience stood at attention and saluted the national flag. At the same time on the square, fifty-four salutes were fired twenty-eight times, symbolizing the twenty-eight years of hard work by the Chinese ****anufacturing party under the leadership of the whole country.
Then Chairman Mao read the first proclamation of the Central People's Government to the world.
Then a grand military parade was held. Commander-in-chief Zhu De, accompanied by the commander-in-chief of the parade Nie Rongzhen, riding in an open-top car to review the troops on parade. After the parade, Commander-in-Chief Zhu De returned to the podium to read the "People's Liberation Army Headquarters Order".
After the announcement of the order, at 4:35 p.m., the parade began. Infantry, cavalry, tanks, artillery and automobiles of the three parade units of the People's Liberation Army (PLA), organized in square formations by company, passed through Tiananmen Square in a separate ceremony from east to west with a mighty and majestic stride.
At the same time, the People's Liberation Army Air Force has just formed fourteen fighters and bombers, swept through Tiananmen Square in the air to accept the parade.
The military parade lasted three hours before and after the ceremony, at this time it was already late, Chang'an Street lanterns were released, the mass parade began.
At 9:25 p.m., countless colorful fireworks were launched around the square.
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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 Chinese people stood up as the masters of the country from then on.
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. A new era has opened up in Chinese history.
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