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The 70th national anniversary parade was the fifth major parade since Xi Jinping took power as CCP General Secretary (China's paramount leader) and Chairman of the Central Military Commission (Commander-in-chief) in 2012, and occurred with the mass protests in Hong Kong that have been on-going since 9 June as backdrop.
It has been held every decade since 1959, annually from 1950 to 1959, and has been broadcast live on China Central Television since 1984. [2] The most recent National Day parade took place on October 1, 2019, on the 70th anniversary of the People's Republic of China.
The 2015 China Victory Day parade was a military parade held along Chang'an Avenue, Beijing, on 3 September 2015 to celebrate the 70th anniversary of Victory over Japan Day of World War II.
In 1999, the Central Committee decided to hold a military parade for the 50th anniversary of the People's Republic of China, and a large-scale military parade was held on October 1 of the same year in Tiananmen Square. [17] In 2009, a large military parade was held on the 60th anniversary of the People's Republic of China on the National Day. [18]
A Jubilee is often used to refer to the celebration of a particular anniversary of an event, usually denoting the 25th, 40th, 50th, 60th, and the 70th anniversary. The term comes from the Hebrew Bible (see, "Old Testament"), initially concerning a recurring religious observance involving a set number of years, that notably involved freeing of debt slaves.
Global trade records obtained by the AP indicate that about 120,000 copies of the Republican nominee's "God Bless the USA" Bible were shipped from China's eastern city of Hangzhou to the U.S ...
The resurgent “God Bless The USA Bible” featured in Trump’s recent ad is an altered version of the original concept, a modification that likely followed the publishing shake-up.
70th-anniversary Victory Day Parade on Tiananmen Square As the final official surrender of Japan was accepted aboard the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay on September 2, 1945, the Nationalist Government of the Republic of China , which represented China on the Missouri , announced three-day holidays to celebrate V-J Day, starting September 3.