A huge portrait of Xi Jinping is displayed in the National Day mass pageantry celebrating the 70th founding anniversary of the People's Republic of China (PRC) in Beijing, capital of China, Oct. 1, 2019. (Xinhua/Wang Song)
BEIJING, Oct. 1 (Xinhua) -- A huge portrait of Xi Jinping was displayed during a mass pageantry celebrating the 70th founding anniversary of the People's Republic of China in central Beijing on Tuesday.
Since the 18th Communist Party of China (CPC) National Congress, the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi at the core has led all Party members and the Chinese people of all ethnic groups in a concerted effort to carry out a great struggle, develop a great project, advance a great cause and realize a great dream, established Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, and pushed for historic achievements and shifts in the cause of the Party and the country, said an official narrator of the pageantry.
"Socialism with Chinese characteristics has entered a new era. The Chinese nation has made a great leap from standing up to growing rich and to becoming strong," said the narrator.
