BEIJING -- A grand
performance was staged in Beijing Monday evening to mark the 80th founding
anniversary of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA), with the presence of
President Hu Jintao and other top leaders.
The singing and dancing performance is an artistic retrospect of the 80 years
of history of the PLA, which was founded on August 1, 1927.
Top legislator Wu Bangguo, Premier Wen Jiabao, and Jia Qinglin, Zeng
Qinghong, Wu Guanzheng, Li Changchun and Luo Gan, all members of the Standing
Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central
Committee also joined more than 6,000 spectators to watch the performance.