On October 1, 1949, accompanied by the national anthem "March of the Volunteer Army" played by the military band, the first five-star red flag of New China was raised.
Over the past 72 years, the People's Republic of China has experienced a process of struggle from scratch and from weak to strong. The "firsts" created by New China have become the national memory that makes the blood of generations of Chinese boiling.
Today, let's review the stories about "New China First". ↓↓↓
The first law
On April 13, 1950, the Seventh Session of the Central People's Government Committee passed the Marriage Law of the People's Republic of China and decided to implement it from May 1 of that year.
The new Marriage Law consists of 8 chapters and 27 articles, the basic principle of which is to "abolish the feudal marriage system of arranged coercion, male superiority over female inferiority, and disregard for the interests of children, and the implementation of a new democratic marriage system in which men and women are free to marry, monogamous, equal rights between men and women, and protection of the legitimate interests of women and children."
First award
At 5:00 p.m. on September 27, 1955, the conferment ceremony was solemnly held in Huairen Hall in Zhongnanhai, with a total of 10 marshals, 10 generals, 55 generals, 175 lieutenant generals and 798 major generals.
The first legal Latin alphabet Hanyu Pinyin scheme
On February 11, 1958, the National People's Congress passed the resolution of the Hanyu Pinyin Scheme. After the promulgation of the "Hanyu Pinyin Plan", the literacy work throughout the country at that time was raised to a new level.
The largest oilfield - Daqing Oilfield
On September 26, 1959, an oil well on the Northeast Plains spewed out a black stream of oil. This discovery not only rewrote the history of the new Chinese petroleum industry, but also presented a special gift to the National Day celebration of the tenth anniversary of the founding of New China. Since then, it has been known as the "Daqing" oil field.
The first bridge of the Yangtze River - Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge
On October 15, 1957, the Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge was officially opened to traffic.
Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge ended the history of north-south traffic being cut off by the Yangtze River, today, the Yangtze River bridge is close to 200, the Year of careful calculation, saving investment, Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge, through the vicissitudes of wind and rain, is still majestic.
The first world champion
This is the first world champion of Chinese table tennis and the first world champion of Chinese sports.
On 5 April 1959, at the St. Pride Cup, which symbolizes the highest honor in men's singles for table tennis, the name of the Chinese appeared for the first time, and the moment when the flag was raised and the national anthem was raised in the Westerderlisian Stadium in Dortmund became an eternal classic.
The next day, people's daily published an editorial saying that the gold medal won by Rong Guotuan ended China's history of no world champion.
First-generation international students
In the 1950s, roaring trains, through the vast Siberian plains, laden with black hair and yellow skin, sailed from Beijing to Moscow, the holy mecca of proletarian revolution in their hearts. They have a resounding name - Chinese students studying in the Soviet Union. The curtain has begun on the climax of the first study abroad in New China.
The first car, the "Liberation Brand" cargo car
On July 13, 1956, the day that changed the history of China's automobile industry, Chinese the first car he built, the Jiefang truck, slowly drove off the assembly line. This marks the end of China's history of not being able to mass-produce cars by itself, and it also marks the realization of Chinese's dream of producing domestic cars.
The first domestically produced tank, the "59" tank
On the morning of October 1, 1959, Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai and other state leaders, as well as foreign friends invited to participate in the National Day military parade, climbed the Tiananmen Tower to participate in the celebration ceremony of the tenth anniversary of New China.
The "59" crawler tractor and tank dragging the cannon, composed of a huge stream of steel, with a rumbling noise, drove into Tiananmen Square for parade, and the first armored corps was equipped with 33 "59" tanks independently developed by China.
Chinese climbed Mount Everest for the first time
At 4:20 a.m. on May 25, 1960, Wang Fuzhou, Qu Yinhua and Kampot finally set foot on the summit of Mount Everest, completing the feat of human conquest of the world's highest peak from the north slope.
The first atomic bomb
At 15:00 on October 16, 1964, China's first atomic bomb exploded successfully. Soon, the news of the successful explosion of the atomic bomb in China spread to all corners of the world.
The first hydrogen bomb
On June 17, 1967, in the hinterland of the Lop Nur Desert, a mushroom cloud rose up, and two suns rose at the same time over the desert, and China's hydrogen bomb test was successful.
The first nuclear submarine
On December 26, 1970, China's first nuclear submarine, the Long March 1, was slowly pushed into the sea. The 46,000 parts on the boat were all independently developed by China, without using a single foreign screw. At this point, China became the fifth country in the world to have a nuclear submarine.
The first artificial satellite
On April 24, 1970, the Long March 1 rocket successfully launched the Dongfanghong-1 satellite, which opened the prelude to the exploration of the mysteries of the universe by Chinese.
The first plateau railway, the Qinghai-Tibet Railway
With the unremitting efforts of railway commanders and technicians and scientific researchers, in 1979, the Xining-Golmud section of the first phase of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway was finally successfully laid.
First Antarctic scientific expedition
In 1984, China landed on King George Island in Antarctica for the first time, and built its first Antarctic research station, the Great Wall Station, within 45 days, which shocked the world.
The first manned spacecraft - "Shenzhou V"
△ Photo: Yang Liwei The first Chinese ushered in by the vast space
At 9:00 a.m. on October 15, 2003, the Shenzhou V spacecraft was launched, and when it flew for 590 seconds, Yang Liwei got rid of the earth's gravity. The vastness of space has finally ushered in the first Chinese. In 21 hours and 23 minutes, Shenzhou V successfully returned after flying around the earth for 14 times. Yang Liwei completed the 241st space flight of mankind.
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Column Editor-in-Chief: Zhang Wu Text Editor: Li Linwei Title Image Source: Xinhua News Agency Photo Editor: Su Wei
Source: Author: National Memory