China's top political advisory body held a ceremony at Beijing's Zhongshan Park on Monday to mark the 141st anniversary of the birth of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, the forerunner of China's democratic revolution.
The ceremony was presided over by Wang Zhongyu, vice chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC).
Li Guixian, vice chairman of the CPPCC National Committee, He Luli, chairperson of the Central Committee of the Revolutionary Committee of the Kuomintang, Lou Zhihao, deputy head of the United Front Work Department of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, and Beijing Vice-Mayor Sun Anmin presented flower baskets to a statue of Sun Yat-sen.
Present at the symposium were vice-chairman of the Standing Committee of China's National People's Congress (NPC) Han Qide, and the CPPCC National Committee vice chairpersons Luo Haocai, Zhou Tienong, Huang Mengfu, Li Meng, and Zhang Rongming.
Dr. Sun is known across the country as a "great revolutionist and statesman" who fought against feudalism and imperialist aggression and for the independence and freedom of the Chinese people.
He was born in 1866 in Xiangshan County (now Zhongshan City) in south China's Guangdong Province and died of illness in Beijing on March 12, 1925.
Source: Xinhua
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