China's Communist Party gets ready to celebrate the 70th anniversary of its foundation on October 1 with a massive parade
October 1 will mark the 70th anniversary of the People’s Republic of China’s foundation after Mao Zedong’s Communist Party defeated the Nationalist Party in a civil war.
Carrying on with tradition, the president’s speech will follow a military parade by the People’s Liberation Army in Beijing’s Balancing bundles and straw bags on poles, women come into Shanghai from towns and villages on the outskirts to do their shopping, June 14, 1961. Workers' average yearly income on a farming commune in Hangchow is the equivalent of $250, some of which is paid in food, but people are able to withstand the hardships, convinced of a brighter future.
In this May 17, 1989, file photo, Tiananmen Square is filled with thousands during a pro-democracy rally, in Beijing, China. Over seven weeks in 1989, student-led pro-democracy protests centered on Beijing’s Tiananmen Square became China’s greatest political upheaval since the end of the Cultural Revolution more than a decade earlier.
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