Monument to the People's Heroes
| 人民英雄纪念碑 | |
Monument from southwest, 2014
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| Coordinates | 39°54′11″N 116°23′30″E / 39.90306°N 116.39167°ECoordinates: 39°54′11″N 116°23′30″E / 39.90306°N 116.39167°E |
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| Location | Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China |
| Designer | Liang Sicheng, Lin Huiyin |
| Type | Cenotaph |
| Material | Marble, granite |
| Height | 38 metres (125 ft) |
| Beginning date | August 1952 |
| Completion date | May 1958 |
| Dedicated to | Veterans of Chinese wars 1842–1949 |
The Monument to the People's Heroes (Chinese: 人民英雄纪念碑; pinyin: Rénmín Yīngxióng Jìniànbēi) is a ten-story obelisk that was erected as a national monument of the People's Republic of China to the martyrs of revolutionary struggle during the 19th and 20th centuries. It is located in the southern part of Tiananmen Square in Beijing, to the north of Mausoleum of Mao Zedong. The monument was built in accordance with a resolution of the First Plenary Session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference adopted on November 30, 1949, with construction lasting from August 1952 to May 1958. The architect of the monument was Liang Sicheng, with some elements designed by his wife, Lin Huiyin. The civil engineer, Chen Zhide (陈志德) was also instrumental in realising the final product.
The monument has also served as the centre of large-scale mourning activities that later developed into protest and unrest, such as the deaths of Premier Zhou Enlai (which developed into the Tiananmen Square protests of 1976) and Hu Yaobang (which developed into the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989).
The monument has an estimated height of 37.94 metres (124.5 ft) and covers an area of 3,000 square metres (32,000 sq ft). It weighs over 10,000 tonnes (9,800 long tons; 11,000 short tons) and contains about 17,000 pieces of marble and granite from Qingdao, Shandong Province, and the nearby Fangshan District.
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