Appreciate New China's history as nation's 70th anniversary approaches

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Much of today's Tian'anmen Square was transformed after 1949 into what we see today. Previously there ran a ceremonial avenue along which Imperial processions would head towards Qianmen or ‘Front Gate'. It followed the historic north-south axis line on which Beijing was laid out.

I reached the 36-meter-high Monument to the People's Heroes, an obelisk of Qingdao granite, completed in 1958. Calligraphy by Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai adorns its facade.

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