The parade and celebrations in Beijing Bashny.Net

In Beijing to mark the 60th anniversary of the PRC, and held a grand military parade and a lot of other fun activities.
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2nd. General Secretary of the Communist Party of China, Chairman of the country and the chairman of the Central Military Commission Hu Jintao toured the participants of military calculation. Hu was dressed in military-style fatigues similar to the one in which Mao Zedong went.



3rd Parade was held on the Chang'an Avenue, which connects the eastern and western parts of the city center, through Tiananmen Square and the central Beijing.



4th Total took part in the parade 56 regiments.



5th 14 of them marched along the main avenue and the main square of the Chinese capital, 30 traveled on military equipment, 12 flew over them in planes and helicopters.



6th Regiments marching columns of 14 rows of 25 each with two leading ahead. Thus, for each column 352.



7th spite of the fact that, compared with a parade in honor of the 50th anniversary of China the number of military units and soldet (11000) on this parade was smaller, but this time was demonstrated by an increasing number of branches of the armed forces of the country.



8th Musical accompaniment for the parade sounded by combined military orchestra of 1,300 troops three types of armed forces - land, air force and navy.



9th During the parade, China introduced 52 new types of military equipment of its own design, 90% of which were shown to the public for the first time.



The 10th general public could, in particular, see the solid-fuel ballistic missiles CSS-X-10.



11th Unlike last parade, the current increased the share of military equipment, which symbolizes the growing mechanization of the Chinese army units and the transfer of strategic focus to the use of manpower on the use of high-tech military equipment.



12th Viewers were represented planes airborne early warning and control.



13th National Day of the People's Republic of China (Gotsintsze) is traditionally celebrated in China weekly holidays. In the first 11 years after the proclamation of the New China October 1, 1949, military parades were held in Beijing every year. They were then suspended and has since held only in 1984 and 1999.



14th military parade and parade in honor of the 60th anniversary of the founding of the PRC continued to 2 hours 25 minutes.



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17th evening sky above the capital lit 30-minute miracle performance director Zhang Yimou. The main "inventor" opening ceremony of the 2008 Olympics, this time to experiment with fireworks.



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