In 1984, on the occasion of the 35th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, senior PLA generals on the upper floor of Tiananmen Square were, from left, Hong Xuezhi, Yang Dezhi, Zhang Aiping, Yu Qiuli, Yang Shangkun, and Wang Zhen.
In 1982, the Twelfth National Congress of the Communist Party of China produced a new leading group of the Central Military Commission, Yang Shangkun was elected secretary general of the Central Military Commission, and Hong Xuezhi, Yang Dezhi, Zhang Aiping, and Yu Qiuli were elected as deputy secretaries general of the Central Military Commission. Wang Zhen is a member of the Standing Committee of the Central Military Commission.
At that time, the average age of several generals was 70 years old, and it can be said that the older generation of revolutionaries dedicated their lives to the motherland and the people.
![During the reconstruction of Tiananmen Square, workers found a small box, which was later learned to be the "treasure of the town" of the Qing Dynasty.[fig]](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAP///wAAACwAAAAAAQABAAACAkQBADs=)