Written by | Dong Xin Cai Yi Gao Yu Yang
At 8:00 a.m. on July 1, the conference to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China was solemnly held in Beijing's Tiananmen Square. Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, President of the People's Republic of China and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, delivered an important speech.
On behalf of the party and the people, Xi Jinping solemnly declared that through the continuous struggle of the whole party and the people of all ethnic groups in the country, we have achieved the first centenary goal, comprehensively built a moderately prosperous society on the land of China, historically solved the problem of absolute poverty, and are moving forward towards the second centenary goal of building a socialist modern power in an all-round way. This is the great glory of the Chinese nation! This is the great glory of the Chinese people! This is the great glory of the Communist Party of China!
In the course of Xi Jinping's speech, there were many bursts of applause at the scene.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="5" > ordinary heroes who won the "July 1st Medal" climbed the Tiananmen Tower</h1>
After the celebration began, Xi Jinping, Li Keqiang, Li Zhanshu, Wang Yang, Wang Huning, Zhao Leji, Han Zheng, Wang Qishan and other party and state leaders came to the Tiananmen Tower. Comrade Hu Jintao came to the Tiananmen Tower.
Also attending the meeting at the Tiananmen Tower today were leading comrades and veteran comrades of the CPC Central Committee, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, the State Council, the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and the Central Military Commission.
Zheng Zhijun noticed that ordinary heroes who had just won the "July 1st Medal," including Zhang Guimei, Li Hongta, Maimai Tijiang Wumaier, and Lin Dan, as well as Zhang Boli, Zhang Dingyu, and Chen Wei, who had won the national honorary title of "People's Hero," were also seated at the Tiananmen Tower.
In addition, representatives of heroic and exemplary figures, representatives of all ethnic groups and all walks of life, representatives of the recipients of the "50 Years of Glory in the Party" commemorative medal, representatives of party members of this year's new development, representatives of Compatriots in Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan, and overseas Chinese compatriots, as well as envoys and foreign experts from various countries stationed in China attended the celebration meeting at the scene.
According to Xinhua News Agency, more than 70,000 people of all ethnic groups and all walks of life attended the celebration meeting.
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According to Qiushi Net, the convening of a celebration meeting, attended by the main leaders of the party and delivering speeches, was the highest standard form of celebrating the founding of the party after the founding of New China.
The meeting to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China was held in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, the first time since the founding of New China that such a celebration meeting was held in Tiananmen Square.
Zhengzhijian (WeChat ID: bqzhengzhiju) noted that after the founding of New China, the above-mentioned celebration meetings were held a total of eight times.
In 1951, the 30th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China and the first anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China after the founding of New China, a celebration meeting was held at the Xiannongtan Stadium in Beijing on the afternoon of June 30 of that year.
After the completion of the Great Hall of the People in 1959, the celebrations of the 40th anniversary (1961), 60th anniversary (1981), 70th anniversary (1991), 80th anniversary (2001), 90th anniversary (2011) and 95th anniversary (2016) of the Founding of the Party were held in the Great Hall of the People.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="62" > activity starts at the earliest</h1>
After the founding of New China, the major activities of the Party Central Committee to celebrate the party's birthday were basically held on July 1. Among the eight celebrations, the one celebrating the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China was the earliest to start.
According to Zheng Zhijun statistics, the meeting to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the founding of the party in 1951 was held at 6 p.m.; the meeting to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the founding of the party in 1961 was held at 7 p.m.; the meeting to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the founding of the party in 1981 and the celebration meeting for the 70th anniversary of the founding of the party in 1991 was held at 3 p.m.; the meeting to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the founding of the party in 2001 was held at 9 a.m.; and the meeting to celebrate the 90th anniversary of the founding of the party in 2011 and the celebration meeting for the 95th anniversary of the founding of the party in 2016 were held at 10 a.m.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="63" > square transformed into a giant ship, and "100" was displayed in many places on the scene</h1>
Throughout Tiananmen Square, red is a very eye-catching color.
On the east and west sides of Tiananmen Square, there are a total of 100 red flags, symbolizing the party's century-old style and youth.
There are also several "100" on site. For example, 56 salutes resonated with 100 rings; honor guards formed a national flag guard, stepping on the red carpet, crossing the red arch, walking towards the flag-raising area, 220 meters away, the national flag guard was walking and walking in unison for 100 steps.
Zheng Zhijian (WeChat ID: bqzhengzhiju) saw through the live camera of CCTV that when today's conference to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China was held, Tiananmen Square transformed into the shape of a giant ship.
The helmsman cockpit of the giant ship is located in the Tiananmen Tower, and the foredeck of the giant ship extends to the Monument to the People's Heroes, and the party emblem stands high on the strings.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="64" > the first phalanx message from the Communist Youth League and young pioneers</h1>
One link in the celebration meeting was a thousand-person phalanx of volunteers composed of members of the Communist Youth League and young pioneers. This was the first time in any collective event held in Tiananmen Square.
Zheng Zhijian (WeChat ID: bqzhengzhiju) noted that the dedication was led by 4 teenagers. The dedication ended with the sound of the chanting in unison, "Please rest assured that the party is assured, the country has me."
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"Sing a mountain song to the party, I bring the party to the mother..."
This song "Sing a Mountain Song to the Party" is the first song sung in Tiananmen Square this morning, and is sung by a choir of nearly 3,000 people.
Subsequently, with the accompaniment of the military orchestra, the choir sang "Unity is Strength", "We Walk on the Road", "Socialism is Good", "We Are the Successors of Communism", "New Heaven and Earth", and "Without the Communist Party, There Would Be No New China".
In addition, the national anthem and "Singing the Motherland" at the end of the whole performance were sung.
Zheng Zhijian (WeChat ID: bqzhengzhiju) noted that the warm-up songs of the 7 celebrations all had different creative backgrounds.
"Singing Mountain Songs to the Party" (1963, lyrics by Yao Xiaozhou and music by Zhu Jian'er)
In the 1960s, Lei Feng saw a poem in the newspaper called "Singing Mountain Songs to the Party" and copied it in his diary. Zhu Jian'er, a composer at the Shanghai Experimental Opera House, was deeply moved to see this poem in Lei Feng's diary, composed a song in the style of a mountain song, and noted that the lyrics were excerpted from Lei Feng's diary, and the author of this poem was Yao Xiaozhou.
In 1964, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Tibetan singer Tseten Dolma sang this song in the large-scale musical and dance epic "Dongfang Hong".
Unity is Strength (1943, lyrics by Mu Hong, music by Lu Su)
The song was born in June 1943 in a small village in Huangni District, Pingshan County, Jin-Cha-Ji Border Region.
At that time, the enemy lines were in the most difficult period of the most intense, cruel, and difficult life of the "pre-dawn darkness" of the battle. In order to oppose the Japanese Kou going to the border areas to grab grain and implement the crazy policy of "snatching the light, killing the light, and burning the light," the Northwest Field Service Regiment went deep into the vast rural areas of Pingshan, Hebei, and Fanzhi, Shanxi, to participate in the struggle.
In order to cooperate with this struggle, Mu Hong and Lu Su suddenly created the mini-opera "Unity is Strength" in three or four days or so, and the theme song of the same name, "Unity is Strength".
"We Walk on the Road" (1963, lyrics and composition by Li Haofu)
The song was conceived and composed in the spring and summer of 1962 and published in the spring of 1963.
One day, songwriter Lee turned on the radio and heard the Soviet radio playing the song "Path". Li Haofu told his wife Zhang Luo that the construction of socialism cannot take a small road, and the people should take a big road.
In 1962, Premier Zhou Enlai and the leaders of the central ministries and commissions went to Shenyang for a meeting. In a conversation with Li Haofu and others, Premier Zhou said that everyone should believe that the party and the state can lead the people to continue to move forward. After the conversation, Li Haofu composed according to the spirit of Premier Zhou's speech, and used Premier Zhou's words of "full of vigor and high morale" into the song, and he also wrote a chorus, and the title of the song "We Walk on the Road" was also fixed.
"Socialism is Good" (1950s, lyrics by Huo Xiyan, composition by Li Huanzhi)
This is a song born in the early days of the founding of New China. In 1957, New China completed the first five-year plan, China's heavy industry began to develop, and the northeast heavy industry base arose, and this song was born during this period.
"We Are the Successors of Communism" (1960, lyrics by Zhou Yuhui, composer by Ji Ming)
Originally the theme song of the movie "Hero Little Eight Road" released in 1961, it was determined as the team song of the Chinese Young Pioneers in 1978. The birth of this song originated from the story of "Hero Little Eight Road" of He Cuo Primary School in Xiamen, Fujian Province, more than 60 years ago.
In the 1958 "8.23" shelling battle of Kinmen, He Cuo Primary School organized the "Frontline Youth Branch Activity Brigade". In this "frontline juvenile detachment", the youngest 12 years old and the oldest 16 years old braved the rain of bullets and bullets to deliver water, wash clothes, stand guard posts, check and connect wires, and so on. In September 1959, the Xiamen Municipal Committee of the Communist Youth League awarded this group the honorary title of "Heroic Little Eighth Road".
"New Heaven and Earth" (2017, Wen Yizi, Shu Nan qu)
The theme song of the documentary "Brilliant China".
At that time, the director of the documentary "Brilliant China" approached Shu Nan and expressed the hope that the film would convey the pride and confidence of Chinese. After watching the sample film, Shu Nan felt his blood boiling. After two months of painstaking writing, five drafts were changed, and two versions of the score were provided at the same time, and the second version was finally selected.
Without the Communist Party, There Would Be No New China (1943, by Cao Mars)
In 1943, at the age of 19, Cao Mars was appointed as the head of the music group of the Mass Drama Society of the Anti-Japanese National Salvation Federation of the Jin-Cha-Ji Border Region. After reading an editorial in The Liberation Daily titled "Without the Communist Party, There Would Be No China," he created "Without the Communist Party, There Would Be No China."
One day in 1950, Chairman Mao heard his daughter Li Ne singing "Without the Communist Party, There Would Be No China," correcting that China would have existed long ago without the Communist Party, and that it should be changed to "Without the Communist Party, there would be no New China," so as to conform to historical facts.
Later, the name of the song was officially set as "Without the Communist Party, There Would Be No New China.".
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