"Road to Revival" starts China tour

The music and dance epic "Road to Revival", which premiered in 2009 to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the founding of New China, is hitting the road. Its nationwide tour kicked off in Taiyuan, Shanxi Province on Monday night.

The music and dance epic "Road to Revival", which premiered in 2009 to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the founding of New China, is hitting the road. Its nationwide tour kicked off in Taiyuan, Shanxi Province on Monday night.

The music and dance epic "Road to Revival", which premiered in 2009 to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the founding of New China, is hitting the road. Its nationwide tour kicked off in Taiyuan, Shanxi Province on Monday night.

"Road to Revival" is the third music and dance epic commemorating the founding of new China, after the "East is Red" and "Song of the Chinese Revolution". The five-act, two-and-a-half-hour performance depicts the exploration, struggle, and development through the past 169 years of China's history, and presents a revived chronicle of the Chinese nation on stage. The show premiered in Beijing in September of 2009. Now it will tour around China for one year's time.