2015 China Victory Day Parade
| 2015 China Victory Day Parade | |||||||
Logo of the 2015 China Victory Day Parade.
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| Traditional Chinese | 紀念中國人民抗日戰爭暨世界反法西斯戰爭勝利70週年閱兵式 | ||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 纪念中国人民抗日战争暨世界反法西斯战争胜利70周年阅兵式 | ||||||
| Literal meaning | Parade commemorating 70th anniversary of the victories of Anti-Japanese War of the Chinese people and the World Anti-Fascist War | ||||||
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| Hanyu Pinyin | jì niàn zhōng guó rén mín kàng rì zhàn zhēng jì shì jiè fǎn fǎ xī sī zhàn zhēng shèng lì 70zhōu nián yuè bīng shì |
The 2015 China Victory Day parade was a military parade held along Changan Avenue, Beijing, on 3 September 2015 to celebrate the 70th anniversary of Victory over Japan Day of World War II. The commemoration was the first high-profile military parade held to celebrate an occasion other than the National Day of the People's Republic of China. 12,000 troops of the People's Liberation Army participated in the parade, in addition to over 1,000 troops from 17 different countries, also about 850,000 "Citizen Guards " were mobilised to guard the city. Xi Jinping inspected the troops. Li Keqiang was the master of ceremonies and Song Puxuan was the chief commander of the parade.
The 70th Anniversary of V-day parade marked the first time that China held a military parade other than the National Day, and the first to celebrate the end of World War II. Since the founding of the People's Republic in 1949, China held parades primarily on October 1, the country's national day. The most prominent renditions of the parade were held in 1959, 1984, 1999, and 2009, presided over respectively by then leaders Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin, and Hu Jintao. The 70th anniversary parade was also the first major parade since Xi Jinping took power as the President of the People's Republic of China and General Secretary of the Communist Party of China . The prevailing theme was to be "peace and victory". Xi Jinping had attended the 2015 Moscow Victory Day Parade in May as the guest-of-honour of Russian president Vladimir Putin, and Putin returned the favour at this parade.
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