The national committee of the Chinese People's Political
Consultative Conference (
CPPCC) held a grand ceremony Friday to commemorate the 138th
anniversary of the birth of China's revolutionary forerunner Sun
Yat-sen.
Representatives from all walks of life from society, including
Li Guixian, vice chairman of the CPPCC National Committee, He Luli,
chairperson of the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese
Kuomintang, and Sun Anmin, Beijing's vice mayor, attended the
ceremony held in the capital's Zhongshan Park and bowed three times
in front of the Sun Yat-sen Statue to show their respect.
The ceremony was presided over by Wang Zhongyu, also vice
chairman of the CPPCC National Committee.
Similar ceremonies were also held in Shanghai and Guangzhou, the
capital of south China's Guangdong Province.
Born in 1866 in Xiangshan County (now Zhongshan City) in south
China's Guangdong
Province, Dr. Sun Yat-sen is known across the country as "a
great revolutionary and great statesman" who led the 1911
Revolution, the Chinese democratic revolution which overthrew the
imperial Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) and put an end to more than 2,000
years of feudal rule in China.
Dr. Sun founded China's first republic in Nanjing in 1911 after
the fall of Qing Dynasty. He died of an illness in Beijing on March
12, 1925.
(Xinhua News Agency November 13, 2004)