The Communist Party of China (CPC) will celebrate its 100th anniversary on July 1 this year, when a series of activities such as red patriotic Education will be organized, but there will be no military parade, which has attracted outside attention. Wang Xiaohui, vice minister of the Propaganda Department, said Xi Jinping, general secretary of the CPC, will deliver a speech on the occasion. Public opinion is that the Communist Party’s centennial party celebration, but no military parade, seems low-key. Radio Free Asia correspondent Qiao Long reports.
Li Jun, assistant director of the Political Work Department of the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China (CPC), said at a press conference this Tuesday (23) that there is no military parade scheduled for this year’s celebration of the centennial of the founding of the Communist Party of China. Responding to a question from the Russian news agency RIA Novosti, Li Jun also said that according to the deployment, the Central Military Commission has made unified arrangements for the military celebrations, including holding celebration conferences, conducting party history studies, holding theoretical seminars and symposiums, etc.
The CPC centennial activities also include the “Marching under the Party Banner” exhibition at the China Military Museum, a new reprint of the “Starfire” series, the opening of some of the basic displays at the Naval Museum and the Hong Kong Forces Exhibition Center and other key military history venues, relying on red venues and old revolutionary sites to carry out situational education.
This Time no military parade was arranged, to the surprise of the outside world. Since Xi came to power in 2012, five military parades have been held, on average once every two years. Xi Jinping is arguably the Communist Party leader who has conducted the most number of military parades in history. The last one was a major military parade in Beijing in 2019, the 70th anniversary of the founding of the country.
No parade shows complicated international situation
In an interview with Radio Free Asia, Hebei-based current affairs commentator Yue Jun said that according to the official announcement of the celebrations, no exciting arrangements are visible: “There is no particularly big and exciting point to the event. The 100th anniversary of the founding of the party doesn’t quite fit with a major title, both in terms of the party’s history and his position in power. Personally, I think it’s just a superficial celebration”
According to Chinese dissident Ji Feng, compared to the past, the Communist Party’s 100th anniversary can be described as low-key for three reasons, ultimately to reduce international pressure: “All he is doing now is for domestic people to see, and if it comes down to it, it will be exposed, that’s one, and two, they may have originally prepared a military parade, if not an Epidemic, not all over the world, causing so much Third, the United States and China are at loggerheads, and relations with the European Union, Canada, Australia, Japan and other countries have deteriorated, so it can be said that they are in trouble on all sides. If they do this again (parade), he will become a street rat.”
The “two hundred years” in the party constitution is the first 100 years this year
The so-called two hundred years is the policy goal of the Chinese Communist Party. According to the Constitution of the CPC, which was amended at the 19th CPC National Congress, the “two hundred years” aim to build a moderately prosperous society by 2021, the 100th year of the CPC’s founding, and by 2049, the 100th year of the People’s Republic of China’s founding. This year is the first 100 years, but there is no official demonstration of the military power under the control of the Communist Party. Yue Jun said, “Because the CCP has never emphasized cohesion in such matters, without such a victory or height, it should not match the 100th anniversary celebration.”
Current affairs commentator Cai Shenkun told the station that according to the content of the CPC’s centennial party celebration activities announced by the Central Propaganda Department, this type of propaganda is already sufficient: “Parades are often held in the big celebration of the founding of the country, when the stability of the parade, the history of the parade is also in the founding of the country on the tenth and other full anniversary, the last time (the 70th anniversary of anti-fascism in 2015) he has engaged in an extra (parade) , if the parade continues, it will be counterproductive.”
The Chinese Communist Party came from the former Soviet regime
According to Cai Shenkun, the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party has encountered another problem, that is, who should be commemorated? Because the Chinese Communist Party is a product of the former Soviet Union of the Communist International: “If other activities are as prestigious as high-profile, the 100th anniversary of this event commemorated or not, the significance is not too big. Because 100 years have experienced too many things, the past leaders of the CPC were purged in the campaign. If the 100th anniversary is commemorated in a high profile, who exactly should be commemorated?”
Wang Xiaohui, vice minister of the Propaganda Department, introduced at the conference that a grand conference will be held in the name of the CPC Central Committee to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the CPC, and Xi Jinping, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, president of the country and chairman of the Central Military Commission, will deliver a speech.
In addition, other celebration activities include year-round party history study and education activities, the selection and awarding of the “July 1 Medal” and the selection and commendation of the national “two excellent and one first”, the organization of large-scale thematic exhibitions, cultural performances, the holding of theoretical seminars and symposiums, and the development of mass Thematic propaganda and education activities, etc.
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