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Chinese leaders lay flowers to monument of heroes
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2005-09-03 10:29
Chinese leaders laid floral baskets to the Monument to the
People's Heroes in Tiananmen Square in Beijing Saturday morning, as part of
activities to mark the 60th anniversary of the Chinese people's victory of
the war against Japanese aggression and the victory of the world anti-fascist
war.
Chinese leaders and
other people attending the memorial ceremony stand in Tiananmen Square in
Beijing, capital of China, on September 3, 2005. A grand memorial ceremony
to mark the 60th anniversary of the victory of China's Resistance War
Against Japanese Aggression and the victory of the world war against
fascists is held in Beijing on Saturday.
[Xinhua] |
Chinese leaders Hu Jintao, Wu Bangguo, Wen Jiabao, Jia
Qinglin, Zeng Qinghong, Huang Ju, Wu Guanzheng, Li Changchun and Luo Gan and
nearly 10,000 people from all walks of life gathered in the square attending the
flower-laying ceremony.
At 9:00, Secretary of the Beijing Municipal Committee of the
Communist Party of China (CPC) Liu Qi declared the start of the ceremony. After
the firing of 60 salute cannons, 18 soliders lifted nine floral baskets and
carried them to the monument.
These floral baskets were presented by various parties, including
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, the Central Military Commission, war veterans
and people from all walks of life in Beijing.
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