- Title: CHINA: CHINA'S LEADERS CELEBRATE THE CENTENARY OF MAO TSE-TUNG'S BIRTH
- Date: 26th December 1993
- Summary: BEIJING, CHINA (DECEMBER 26, 1993) 1. WV MAO MAUSOLEUM, ZOOM IN LONG QUEUE OF PEOPLE ENTERING 0.11 2. MCU CHINESE PRESIDENT JIANG ZEMIN AND PREMIER LI PENG WALKING UP STEPS OF MAUSOLEUM 0.18 3. MCU ZOOM IN MARBLE STATUE OF MAO SITTING IN ARMCHAIR ABOVE SIGN '1893-1993' 0.27 4. MCU JIANG ZEMIN, LI PENG AND OFFICIALS BOWING IN FRONT OF MAO'S STATUE 0.36 5. MCU MAO'S BODY IN SARCOPHAGUS O.43 6. GV OFFICIALS FILE PAST SARCOPHAGUS 0.51 (QUALITY AS INCOMING) 7. WV CONFERENCE HALL, ZOOM IN PICTURE OF MAO ON WALL FRAMED BY THE DATES '1893' AND '1993' (MANDARIN NARRATION) 1.05 8. GV JIANG ZEMIN AND LI PENG WALK TO THEIR SEATS IN CONFERENCE ROOM, CLAPPING 1.19 9. GV CONFERENCE HALL WITH DELEGATES CLAPPING 1.21 10. MCU LI SPEAKS ABOUT MAO (MANDARIN) 1.27 11. WV CONFERENCE HALL 1.28 12. MCU JIANG SPEAKS ABOUT MAO (MANDARIN) 1.39 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
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- Country: ASIA China
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- Story Text: Communist China's leaders gathered on Sunday (Decdember 26), the centenary of Mao Tse-tung's birth, to praise him as a great patriot while pledging fealty to the man who scrapped his policies, Deng Xiaoping.
About 10,000 people, including top officials, Mao's relatives and People's Liberation Army representatives, assembled under a massive portrait of Mao inside the Great Hall of the People for a nationally-televised commemorative rally.
President Jiang Zemin hailed Mao as a "great patriot and national hero" who brought to an end China's "semi-colonial and semi-feudal society." Premier Li Peng said Mao launched the policies which put China on the road to its "market economy with Chinese characteristics".
After the rally, Jiang Zemin, Li Peng and other leaders visited Mao's mausoleum, where they bowed reverently in front of a marble statue of the late leader before filing silently past the crystal sarcophagus where Mao's preserved body lies.
Seventeen years after the death of China's "Great Helmsman", there is renewed interest in the man who united China but also presided over the chaos of the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution.
Mao, who led the Chinese communists to power in 1949 and presided over three decades of social turmoil, would have turned 100 on December 26.
Authorities have seized on the centenary with an avalanche of adulatory news stories and TV docudramas recounting "brilliant" military campaigns and Mao's endearing common touch.
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