-President Xi to confer July 1 Medal on CPC members
BEIJING: As the Communist Party of China (CPC) prepares to celebrate its centennial this week, Chinese government bodies and society alike are holding various activities, from preparing for the grand celebration to light shows in multiple cities, to activities that recall the Party’s arduous journey to celebrate the big day.
Xi Jinping, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, will present the July 1 Medal, the highest honor of the Party, to outstanding Party members at a ceremony to be held on Tuesday morning.
Xi, also Chinese president and chairman of the Central Military Commission, will deliver an important speech at the ceremony, reported by media.
At a Sunday press conference that introduced the literature on the Party’s history over the past 100 years, officials revealed that a 100,000-characterwork, which marks significant events of the Party’s history, will be published soon. The book chronicles events ranging from 1921 to this June, when the Museum of the CPC opened.
The second and last comprehensive drill for the grand celebration at Beijing’s Tiananmen Square concluded on early Sunday morning. It started at 8 pm on Saturday and some 33,000 people took part.
Tiananmen Square, where the celebrations are expected to be held, was closed to the public from June 23 and will reopen on July 2 morning. Measures are in place prohibiting the flying of any aerial objects that may affect the safety of flight activities during the celebration.
The Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Carrie Lam will leave for Beijing on Monday to attend the celebration activities.
As the celebration date comes close, exhibitions themed around the founding of the Party are gradually opening to the public.
An exhibition held at the “Red building,” once the main campus of Peking University, will open for visitors on Tuesday in memory of the “red prologue of the brilliant cause” of the Party. The building re-enacts historical scenes featuring how the leading figures of the CPC, including Mao Zedong, Li Dazhao and Chen Duxiu, worked in the early stages of the CPC’s history.
– The Daily Mail-Global
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