10th anniversary of the People's Republic of China

1959 celebrations in China November 2021 The 10th Anniversary of the Founding of The People's Republic of China 庆祝中华人民共和国成立10周年大会 zh start=2725|end=4360 Military parade, mass pageant, music and dance gala 1 October 1959 Select yearsSince the founding of the people's republic until 2009, the country has held 14 National Day grand military parades in 1949–1959, 1984, 1999, and 2009.http://www.gov.cn/test/2009-08/21/content_1398265.htm zh:新中国历次大阅兵 New China's previous grand military parades Chinese government web Xinhua News Agency 2009-08-21 2019-09-26 27 December 2009 https://web.archive.org/web/20091227205241/http://www.gov.cn/test/2009-08/21/content_1398265.htm dead Chang'an Avenue, Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China 39 54 26.4 N 116 23 27.9 E type:event inline,title 1949 10 01 1949 10 01 y PLA, PAP, the Militia, and other formations Mao Zedong (chairman) Yang Yong (chief commander of the military parade) The 10th anniversary celebrations of founding of the People's Republic of China were held on 1 October 1959. The main event was held in Tiananmen Square in Beijing. A grand banquet with many international dignitaries had been organized on the preceding evening.Peking Review. National Day, 1959. 6 October 1959. No. 40. pp. 4–6 Celebrations in Beijing center right vertical Type 59 in parde.jpg 220 Tank columns on Chang'an Avenue. China 10th Anniversary Parade in Beijing 07.jpg 220 Anti-aircraft guns in the military parade before the Great Hall of the People. Celebrations in Beijing thumb|Defense Minister Lin Biao surveys the troops in Tiananmen Square. 28–29 September celebratory meeting On 28 and 29 September 1959 a meeting of more than 10,000 people was held in the Great Hall of the People. Chairman Mao Zedong and President Liu Shaoqi were present at the dias. President Liu Shaoqi held a keynote speech at the meeting. Prominent international guests at the event included Ho Chi Minh, Mikhail Suslov, Emil Bodnăraș, Hermann Matern, Mehmet Shehu, Dimitar Ganev, István Dobi, Aleksander Zawadzki, Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal, Kim Il Sung and Antonín Novotný. 30 September banquet On the evening of 30 September 1959, a jubilee banquet was hosted in the Great Hall of the People. Around 5,000 people attended the banquet, including guests from around 80 countries. Mao Zedong and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev entered the hall together, meeting applause. Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai and Soviet Premier Khrushchev presented their greetings at the banquet. The Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko also participated in the banquet. Khrushchev had arrived directly from a visit to the United States on the same day. He held a short speech upon his arrival at the airport. 1 October Tiananmen Square parade According to Chinese media, the Tiananmen Square event gathered 700,000 people. At Tiananmen Square participants formed a human version of the national emblem of the People's Republic with the numerals '1949' and '1959' on the sides. A band of one thousand musicians with brass instruments and olive-green uniforms opened the event, playing The East is Red at 09.45. At this point Mao Zedong and Nikita Khrushchev entered the dias. Other dignitaries on the dias included Liu Shaoqi, Soong Ching-ling, Lin Biao, Zhu De, Dong Biwu, Deng Xiaoping and various international guests. Celebrations in other cities center right vertical China 10th Anniversary Parade in Chongqing.jpg 250 Chongqing. China 10th Anniversary Parade in Shanghai.jpg 250 Shanghai China 10th Anniversary Parade in Guangzhou.jpg 250 Guangzhou China 10th Anniversary Parade in Shenyang.jpg 250 Shenyang China 10th Anniversary Parade in Wuhan.jpg 250 Wuhan China 10th Anniversary Parade in Yinchuan.jpg 250 Yinchuan The mayor of Peking, Peng Zhen, declared the ceremony open at 10.00. The national anthem was played and a delegation of 400 Young Pioneers presented a floral tribute at the People's Heroes Monument. After a speech by Defense Minister Lin Biao, a military parade began, followed by a parade of workers, peasants, students and athletes. International delegations at the main events in Beijing At the 30 September banquet, a number of international delegations assisted, representing communist and workers parties and governments.Peking Review. Guests of Honour Present at the Banquet. 6 October 1959. No. 40. pp. 11–12 State delegations +CountryNamePositionKingdom of Afghanistan 1959Ghulam Mohammed SherzadMinister of CommercePeople's Socialist Republic of AlbaniaMehmet ShehuPrime Minister of AlbaniaAlgeria AlgeriaBenyoucef BenkheddaMinister of Social WelfarePRB Dimitar GanevChairman of the Presidium of the National AssemblyBurma 1948 BurmaU Chit ThaungMinister of CultureCSRAntonín NovotnýPresident of CzechoslovakiaDDRHermann MaternChairman of the Central Party Control Commission of the Socialist Unity PartyGuineaDiawadou BarryMinister of EducationHPRIstván DobiChairman of the Presidential CouncilIraqi Republic (1958–1968)Ahmad Muhammed YahiaMinister for Internal AffairsKingdom of NepalDr. Tulsi GiriMinister for Village DevelopmentDPRKKim Il SungPremier of North KoreaKim Kwang HyupMinister of People's Armed ForcesMPRYumjaagiin TsedenbalChairman of the Council of MinistersPPR 1928 Aleksander ZawadzkiChairman of the State CouncilRSREmil BodnărașFirst Vice President of the Council of MinistersSoviet Union 1955Nikita KhrushchevPremier of the Soviet UnionMikhail SuslovSecretary of Ideology of the Communist Party of the Soviet UnionSudan 1956 SudanA. M. GubaraRegistrar of the University of KhartoumNorth VietnamHo Chi MinhPresident of the Democratic Republic of VietnamVõ Nguyên GiápCommander-in-Chief of the People's Army of VietnamYemen 1927 YemenSayed Ali Al-MuyyadMinister of State International organizations OrganizationNamePositionWorld Federation of Trade UnionsSugiriSecretariat MemberWorld Peace CouncilJohn Desmond Bernal,Executive PresidentWomen's International Democratic FederationMarie-Claude Vaillant-CouturierVice PresidentWorld Federation of Democratic YouthChristian EchardGeneral SecretaryAfro-Asian People's Solidarity OrganisationYoussef El-SebaiGeneral SecretaryInternational Union of StudentsJiří PelikánPresidentInternational Association of Democratic LawyersDenis Nowell PrittPresident Party delegations Algerian Communist Party (Larbi Bouhali) Communist Party of Argentina (Victorio Codovilla) Brazilian Communist Party (Luis Carlos Prestes) Communist Party of Bolivia (Jesús Lara) Labor-Progressive Party, Canada (Nelson Clarke) Communist Party of Chile (José González) Colombian Communist Party (Víctor J. Merchán) People's Vanguard Party, Costa Rica (Arnoldo Ferreto) Popular Socialist Party, Cuba (Anibal Escalante) Communist Party of Ecuador (Alejandro Idrovo) Guatemalan Party of Labour Mexican Communist Party Socialist Party of Nicaragua Paraguayan Communist Party (Rogelio Espíndola) Communist Party of Uruguay (Enrique Rodríguez) Communist Party of Venezuela (Jesús Faría) Communist Party of Australia (Lance Sharkey) Communist Party of Ceylon (K.P. de Silva) Communist Party of India (Ajoy Ghosh) Communist Party of Indonesia (Njoto) Tudeh Party of Iran ('Tubali') Iraqi Communist Party (Mohammed Hussein Abu al-Iss) Israeli Communist Party (Tzvi Breitstein) Japanese Communist Party (Sanzo Nosaka) Jordanian Communist Party (Fu'ad Nassar) Lebanese Communist Party (Hasan Qraytim) Communist Party of Nepal (Keshar Jung Rayamjhi) Communist Party of New Zealand (V. G. Wilcox) Syrian Communist Party (Khaled Bakdash) Communist Party of Austria (Johann Koplenig) Communist Party of Belgium (Franz van den Branden) Communist Party of Denmark (Robert Sartori) Communist Party of Finland (Aimo Aaltonen) French Communist Party (Waldeck Rochet) Communist Party of Germany ('Karl') Communist Party of Great Britain (Harry Pollitt) Communist Party of Greece (Apostolos Grozos) People's Unity Party – Socialist Party, Iceland (Eggert Þorbjarnarson) Italian Communist Party (Girolamo Li Causi) Communist Party of Luxembourg (Dominique Urbany) Communist Party of the Netherlands (G. Pothoven) Communist Party of Norway (Jørgen Vogt) Portuguese Communist Party Sammarinese Communist Party (Umberto Barulli) Communist Party of Spain (Dolores Ibárruri) Communist Party of Sweden (Hilding Hagberg) Swiss Party of Labour (Guido Cavagna) Communist Party of Turkey Other commemorations In Beijing, ten "great buildings" were constructed ahead of the celebrations. The most prominent of the ten was the Great Hall of the People.Lin, Xiaoping. Children of Marx and Coca-Cola: Chinese Avant-Garde Art and Independent Cinema. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2010. p. 52 On 26 September 1959, just a few days ahead of the anniversary, oil was discovered at Datongzhen. Datong Town and the oilfields were renamed 'Daqing' ('Great Celebration'), in reference to the tenth anniversary celebrations.Marius Vassiliou, The A to Z of the Petroleum Industry. Lanham, Md: Scarecrow Press, 2009. p. 152People's Republic of China year-book, Vol. 29. 2009. p. 613 Major parades were also organized in Shanghai, Chongqing, Guangzhou, Xi'an, Wuhan, Shenyang and Tianjin. See also History of Beijing References upper-alpha External links China's Tenth Anniversary 1959 (English Subtitles)《庆祝建国十周年》 Category:1959 in China Category:Military parades in China Category:Chinese historical anniversaries