What happened in 1949?

For the Chinese people in 1949, the biggest thing was that the People's Republic of China was established in this year. The founding of the People's Republic of China ushered in a new era in Chinese history. Since then, China has ended its humiliating history of being invaded and enslaved for more than a hundred years, and has truly become an independent country. On January 31, 1949, Peiping was peacefully liberated. On October 1 of the same year, at three o'clock in the afternoon, the People's Republic of China was established, and the Chinese people stood up from then on! As a result, China's second great historical change in the 20th century occurred in 1949. On October 1, the People's Republic of China was founded. At 2 o'clock in the afternoon, the first meeting of the Central People's Government Committee was held in Beijing. The chairman, vice chairman, and members of the Central People's Government Committee all attended and announced their inauguration, announcing the establishment of the Central People's Government of the People's Republic of China.

The meeting also elected Lin Boqu as Secretary-General of the Central People's Government Committee, Zhou Enlai as Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of the Central People's Government, Mao Zedong as Chairman of the Revolutionary Military Commission of the Central People's Government, Zhu De as Commander-in-Chief of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, and Shen Junru. He is the president of the Supreme People's Court of the Central People's Government, and Luo Ronghuan is the prosecutor-general of the Supreme People's Procuratorate of the Central People's Government. The meeting also accepted the "Communist Program of the Communist Party of China" of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference as the government's policy program. At 3 p.m., 300,000 people in the capital gathered in Tiananmen Square to hold the grand founding ceremony of the People's Republic of China.

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When the founding ceremony of the People's Republic of China was held, Tiananmen Square was renovated. The horizontal mark on the tower read "The Founding Ceremony of the Central People's Government of the People's Republic of China", and Chairman Mao's inscription was hung in the center. Huge portrait (photographed in the 1940s). The slogans on both sides read "Long Live the Central People's Government" in the east and "Long Live the People's Republic of China" in the west. There is no national emblem, because the CPPCC symposium and review committee on September 25 and 26, 1949 believed that it needed to be revised, so only four resolutions on the national flag, national anthem, national capital, and chronology were passed at the plenary meeting on the 27th. At that time, the three east and west gates (officially named Chang'an Left Gate and Chang'an Right Gate), the long corridor to the south, the long red walls on both sides of the corridor, and the south gate, the masonry-structured Chinese Gate, still existed, forming a A T-shaped enclosed venue.

There were few means of transportation at that time, and people who were close to us would come in formation on foot, while those who were far away would come by train. The unit I was in at that time was temporarily designated as the Fourth Department of the North China Revolutionary University, and I lived in Xiyuan Courtyard. A team of seven or eight thousand people from the North China Revolutionary University had to walk for about a mile to Qinghuayuan Station. I got up before dawn and arrived at the station at 7 o'clock. I took a black convertible loaded with coal and walked for two hours before arriving at Qianmen Station. When I passed Xizhimen Station, I saw workers from Mentougou coming by train. Although the "journey" was so difficult, everyone was in high spirits. We sat on the floor at the front door and waited until two o'clock in the afternoon to enter the venue. Lunch was steamed buns with cold water, and each person received three pieces of candy and two pears, which was a holiday treat.

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