The Founding Ceremony of the People's Republic of China

On October 1, 1949, 300,000 soldiers and local citizens assembled in Tian'anmen Square to attend the grand founding ceremony of the Central People's Government of the People's Republic of China (PRC).

At 14:00, the Central People's Government Council elected by the First Plenary Session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) held its first meeting. Mao Zedong, chairman of the Central People's Government, vice chairpersons Zhu De, Liu Shaoqi, Soong Ching Ling (1893-1981), Li Jishen (1885-1959), Zhang Lan (1872-1955) and Gao Gang (1905-1954), Zhou Enlai and 55 other members of the Council took office. The meeting passed a resolution that announced the establishment of the Central People's Government and adopted the Common Program of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference as the administrative guideline of the new government.

After the meeting, all the participants mounted the Tian'anmen Rostrum for the founding ceremony of the People's Republic. At 15:00, Lin Boqu, secretary-general of the Central People's Government Council, announced the start of the ceremony. Mao Zedong solemnly proclaimed: "The Central People's Government of the People's Republic of China is founded today." He pressed a button and hoisted the first five-star red flag of New China. He then read the No. 1 Proclamation of the Central People's Government. This was followed by a military review and a grand parade.

The founding of the People's Republic was a grand event in the history of China, and one of the greatest world events of the 20th century, demonstrating the victory of the Chinese people's anti-imperialist and anti-feudal new democratic revolution under the leadership of the CPC. No more would a small number of exploiters rule the Chinese people and the imperialists enslave the Chinese nation. The Chinese people stood up and became masters of the state. It marked China's great transition from several thousand years of feudal autocracy to a people's democracy, and a new era began for the Chinese nation.

開國大典

1949年10月1日，30萬軍民在北京天安門廣場集會，隆重舉行了中華人民共和國中央人民政府成立典禮，史稱“開國大典”。

當日下午2時，中國人民政治協商會議第一屆全體會議選舉產生的中央人民政府委員會舉行了第一次會議。中央人民政府主席毛澤東，副主席朱德、劉少奇、宋慶齡、李濟深、張瀾、高崗以及周恩來等56名中央人民政府委員宣布就職。會議一致決議，宣布中華人民共和國中央人民政府成立，接受《中國人民政治協商會議共同綱領》為施政方針。

會議結束后，中央人民政府主席、副主席及各位委員前往天安門城樓出席開國典禮。下午3時，中央人民政府委員會秘書長林伯渠宣布典禮開始。毛澤東向全世界莊嚴宣布：“中華人民共和國中央人民政府今天成立了！”在《義勇軍進行曲》的雄壯旋律中，毛澤東按動電鈕，新中國第一面鮮艷的五星紅旗冉冉升起。隨即，毛主席向全世界宣讀中央人民政府第一號公告。接著舉行了盛大的閱兵式和群眾游行。

中華人民共和國的成立，標志著中國共產黨領導的人民大眾的反帝反封建的新民主主義革命的勝利，是中國有史以來最偉大的事件，也是20世紀世界最偉大的事件之一。它徹底結束了少數剝削者統治廣大勞動人民和帝國主義奴役中國各族人民的歷史，中國人民從此當家作主成為國家的主人，實現了中國從幾千年封建專制政治向人民民主的偉大飛躍，中華民族發展進步從此開啟了新紀元。