This Day, That Year
China Daily | Updated: 2019-04-22 07:44
Editor's note: This year marks the 70th anniversary of the founding of New China.
On April 22, 1958, after six years of construction, the Monument to the People's Heroes was completed on Tian'anmen Square in Beijing to commemorate the martyrs of revolutionary struggle during the 19th and 20th centuries.
The monument is 37.94 meters high, covering an area of about 3,100 square meters. It contains 17,000 pieces of marble and granite.
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