People around China?held a series of activities on Saturday
to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the death of Dr. Sun
Yat-sen, the forerunner of Chinese democratic revolution.
Sun Yat-sen, who died of illness in Beijing on March 12, 1925,
was born in 1866 in Xiangshan County (now Zhongshan City) in
southern China's Guangdong
Province.
Dr. Sun has been known across the country as a "great
revolutionist and statesman" who fought against feudalism and
imperialist aggression and for the independence and freedom of
Chinese people.
Commemorating ceremonies were held in the memorial hall of
Wuchang Uprising in central China's Hubei
Province, where the first gunshot of the revolution overthrew
China's last feudal regime Qing Dynasty (1616-1911).
A picture exhibition was opened in Shanghai on Saturday to
present Sun Yat-sen's glorious life and achievement. A seminar was
held in Fuzhou, capital of east China's Fujian
Province, to commemorate Sun Yat-Sen.??
(Xinhua News Agency March 13, 2005)
