Beijing: President Xi Jinping praised China’s “irreversible” courses from the humiliating colony to become a great force on the Centenary celebration for the Chinese Communist Party on Thursday, in a speech that reached history to remind patriots at home and rivals abroad – and his own – Ascendancy , Speaking on the portrait of the giant Mao Zedong, who dominated Tiananmen Square, from the podium where the famous chairman proclaimed the Chinese People’s Republic of 1949, XI said “the Chinese era intimidated lost forever” praised the party to raise income and restore national pride.
Drawing the line from the conquest of the opium war to the struggle to form a socialist revolution in China, XI said the party had brought “national rejuvenation” to appoint tens of millions of poverty and “change the landscape of the world development.” XI, wearing a ‘Mao style’ jacket, adding “the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation has entered an irreversible historical course” and vowed to continue to build a “world class” military to defend national interests.
In the summer of 1921 Mao and the coupling of Marxist-Leninist thinkers in Shanghai founded a party that had turned into one of the strongest political organizations in the world.
Now count around 95 million members, collecting more than a century of war, hunger and chaos, and more recently a surge in superpower status against western rivals, led by the US.
In the ceremony of the grandeur and patriotism, thousands of singers, supported by marching ribbons, tied to choirs including “We are the heir of communism” and “without the Communist Party there will be no new Chinese” as an invitation without masks cheering and waving.
Flag in Tiananmen Square which is packed.
A helicopter fly in the spelling of the ‘100’ formation – a giant hammer and trailing crescent flag – and 100-gun salute followed, while young communists simultaneously promised to party.
XI, whose words braided Chinese economic miracles with a long life of the party, had strengthened the eight-year government through worship of personality, the deadline ended and declined to anoint the successor.
He has cleaned out rivals and distinguishes it – from Uyghur Muslims and online criticism for pro-democracy protests on Hong Kong streets.
The party has spin on new challenges; Using Tech to update its appeal for a younger generation – 12.55 million members are now 30 or younger – while giving communist final results to the consumer economy decorated by the billionaire entrepreneurs.
On the streets of Beijing, praise for the party is efficient than those who want to talk to foreign media.
“We must thank the party and the homeland,” said Li Luhao, 19, a student at the Beihang University appeared in the celebration.
A man surnamed Wang, 42, said: “When I was little, there was a blackout for an hour every night and lack of electricity.” “Now the road is full of light.
Food, clothing, education, traffic everything is better.” XI has presented a challenging face for foreign rivals led by the US, won nationalist sentiment, hitting back criticism of his government’s actions in Hong Kong, towards Taiwan and Uyghurs treatment.
“Chinese people will never let foreign troops to bully, oppress, or enslave us,” Xi said in his speech to a festive applause.
“Anyone who wants to do it will face bloodshed in front of the large steel wall built by more than 1.4 billion Chinese people.” In the 100th year, the party has provided a selective version of history through the films, campaigns and tourism books’ red, which dances the violence of the mass of the cultural revolution, hunger and harassment of Tiananmen students.
Instead, it has pushed attention to the Chinese rebound from Covid-19, which first appeared in the city of Wuhan, but was almost extinguished in the country.
But reminders lift the risk of stability.
Thursday also marked the 24th anniversary of the surrender of former Hong Kong British colonies to China, a date that had met with mass demonstrations against Beijing.
One year ago, China imposed Draconian National Security law in the city in response to large-violent protests.
Size has seen more than 64 activists charged, anti-Chinese slogans are criminalized and even the closing of important newspapers when the law sank the freewheeling city which was once into what was called Amnesty International “human rights emergency”.
Police denied demand for demonstrations in the city, although some pro-democracy groups had vowed to oppose the presence of a powerful 10,000 police on the streets.
“The CCP can enter hell,” A Hong Konger who gave his name only when Ken told AFP.
“Whatever is valuable, they destroy.”