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China’s Communists Mark 60 Years in Power With Parade (Update2)
Oct. 1 (Bloomberg) -- The People’s Republic of China began marking its 60th anniversary today, staging a military parade through the heart of Beijing to demonstrate the country’s rising global influence.
President Hu Jintao, wearing a black suit similar to one worn by People’s Republic founder Mao Zedong, joined former President Jiang Zemin and members of the ruling Politburo Standing Committee on the rostrum of Tiananmen -- the Gate of Heavenly Peace. It was there, on Oct. 1, 1949, that Mao declared the Communist Party’s victory in a civil war.
Hu, in a speech, said China was “able and confident in playing its global role,” and vowed that China would seek “peaceful reunification” with Taiwan, which has been ruled for much of the past 60 years by the Nationalists, defeated in 1949 on the mainland.
Hundreds of missiles and tanks and thousands of troops from the world’s largest standing army began parading down Chang’an Avenue through Tiananmen Square following Hu’s speech and his review of the troops along the avenue, where he yelled out “Hello comrades” and “Comrades it’s been hard on you” from an open-topped Red Flag limousine. Overhead, 151 military aircraft, including J-10 fighter jets, flew in 12 formations over the Chinese capital.
Economic Growth
Hu and his fellow leaders are celebrating China’s newfound prominence on the global stage. China now produces in a day the equivalent of a year’s output five decades ago, and is poised to surpass Japan as the world’s second-largest economy by 2010. The Communists, who lifted 300 million citizens from abject poverty and raised the country’s international influence, must now satisfy increasing demands for domestic freedom and accountability.
The celebration “is a show-off to beef up confidence in, and support to, the regime,” said Huang Jing, visiting professor at the National University of Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy. “Serious questions need to be asked how such a show of strength can translate into” transparency and tolerance for “ethnic, cultural and religious diversity.”
About 80,000 children in Tiananmen Square spelled out the Chinese characters for “national celebration” with red and gold placards to begin the celebration. Later, the placards read “obey the Party’s command” and “serve the people.”
Military Parade
The People’s Liberation Army is displaying 52 types of new weapons including unmanned aerial vehicles and aircraft with advance warning radar, while 5,000 soldiers march their way through Tiananmen Square past the portraits of Mao and Sun Yat- Sen, Republican China’s first president after the fall of the Qing Dynasty in 1912. Up to 200,000 people are taking part in the parade, which includes a flotilla of 60 vehicles bedecked with flowers and digital displays showcasing six decades of China’s scientific, technological and economic achievements.
The celebration is an opportunity for the government to showcase its achievements to the country’s 1.3 billion people. China Central Television’s broadcast of the event telecast preparations of the parade, complete with marching soldiers, jets and tanks, with the theme of Disney Co.’s “Pirates of the Caribbean” in the background. A female commentator extolled the economic achievements of the People’s Republic in the minutes before the parade began.
Traffic Controls
Police kept most of Beijing’s 3.8 million private cars off of the roads today, and restricted access to the city center. South of Di’anmen Street, which bisects the inner city from east to west, police armed with machine guns blocked cars from heading toward Tiananmen Square this morning.
The PLA parade is the 14th since the army emerged victorious in the 1949 civil war against the Kuomintang, or Nationalist Party, which now governs Taiwan.
China’s economy may surpass the U.S. by 2027, according to a projection by New York-based Goldman Sachs Group Inc. Foreign currency reserves are the world’s largest at $2.13 trillion, and the country is the biggest foreign holder of U.S. Treasury securities, with $800.5 billion at the end of July. The country’s largest lender, Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd., is the world’s biggest by value and its most profitable.
Economic growth and rising global influence have come at the cost of domestic expression. Opposition to Communist Party rule is banned while dissent, including the 1989 student demonstrations in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, is crushed.
‘Peaceful and Responsible’
The government must “reassure the international community and the Asia-Pacific region in particular, that a rapidly rising China will remain peaceful and responsible to global security and prosperity,” Huang said. “Its interests are extending to every corner of the world, and these interests are not always consistent with those of the others.”
As many as 800 million Chinese, 60 percent of the population, still live in the countryside, and rapid development has left millions of them behind. Still socialist in name, China has a wider income gap than Taiwan and South Korea have now, or had during their export-led industrializations.
The gaps are made wider by the spread of corruption. Graft has reached into the senior ranks of officials, with those convicted including the former parliamentary vice chairman Cheng Kejie, Shanghai party chief Chen Liangyu, and Chen Tonghai, former chairman of China Petroleum & Chemical Corp., or Sinopec, as the nation’s second-biggest oil company is known.
Ethnic Tensions
Even as Tiananmen Square is festooned today with 56 columns representing the country’s biggest ethnic groups, many ethnic Uighurs and Tibetans say they see China as an empire diluting their indigenous cultures and lifestyles.
The worst riots in six decades broke out in the past two years in Tibet and Xinjiang, two provinces on China’s western fringe, spurred by income gaps along ethnic and religious fissures.
The world’s most populous nation has also become the largest commodity resource consumer and one of the largest energy users. China last year passed the U.S. as the biggest emitter of greenhouse gasses, and widespread pollution of its atmosphere and waterways is rarely checked by public opposition.
The smog that enveloped Beijing for three days before today’s parade lifted overnight after a light rainfall.
--Michael Forsythe, Eugene Tang: Editors: John Brinsley, Ben Richardson.
To contact Bloomberg staff on this story: Michael Forsythe in Beijing +8610-6649-7580 or mforsythe@bloomberg.net
Last Updated: September 30, 2009 23:20 EDT |
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