Last Friday, July 1, China's Communist Party celebrated its 90th
anniversary. Through a carefully choreographed week of events --
including concerts, revolutionary re-enactments, TV shows, a
star-studded propaganda film, and a gala event in Shanghai -- the party
emphasized its populist origins. The celebration culminated in a
90-minute speech by Chinese President Hu Jintao, where he extolled the
90 years of Communist Party rule but acknowledged the current need to
fight state corruption. Collected here are some of the scenes from
around the country, as members and supporters of China's Communist Party
celebrated the nine decades since its founding. [30 photos]
Students in school uniforms link their arms to form the flag of the
Communist Party of China, in celebration of the party's upcoming 90th
anniversary during a photo call at a primary school in Dexing, Jiangxi
province, on June 20, 2011. (Reuters/China Daily)
Dancers perform The White-Haired Girl ballet in the Shanghai City
Theater, on June 28, 2011. The ballet was performed for the first time
in 1945, along with Red Detachment of Women. Together they are
considered by many as the classics of revolutionary China's ballet
performances.
(Reuters/Carlos Barria) # 
A man cycles past a decoration put up to celebrate the upcoming 90th
anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China in Chongqing
municipality, on June 30, 2011.
(Reuters/Jason Lee) #
Workers use irons to smooth out a Communist Party of China flag on a
table at the Beijing Jingong Red Flag factory located on the outskirts
of Beijing, on June 28, 2011. The factory has made more than 30,000
flags over the last three months for the upcoming celebrations to mark
the 90th anniversary of China's Communist Party on July 1.
(Reuters/David Gray) #
A boy dressed in Communist Red Army uniform plays with a toy gun at an
old communist base from the 1940's, in Yan'an, in northwestern China's
Shaanxi province, on Friday, July 1, 2011. Yan'an is celebrated as the
birthplace of China's communist revolution.
(AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan) #
Soldiers perform in a revolutionary song singing competition to
celebrate the upcoming 90th anniversary of the founding of the Communist
Party of China, in Chongqing municipality, on June 30, 2011.
(Reuters/Jason Lee) #
Workers construct a display on the top of a giant communist emblem at Tiananmen Square on June 27, 2011 in Beijing, China.
(Feng Li/Getty Images) #
Visitors stand beside a painting at an exhibition by China's Communist
Party to celebrate its 90th anniversary, in the Shanghai Art Museum, on
June 29, 2011.
(Reuters/Aly Song) #
Wang Pengkai, an actor playing the part of China's former Chairman Mao
Zedong, has his make-up applied (including Mao's famous mole on his
chin), during the filming of the upcoming television drama on the
founding of China's Communist Party in Weihai, Shandong province June
13, 2011.
(Reuters/Carlos Barria) #
A Chinese military band conductor rehearses ahead of the celebration of
the Communist Party's 90th anniversary at the Great Hall of the People
on July 1, 2011, in Beijing, China.
(Feng Li/Getty Images) #
A military band member rehearses ahead of the celebration of the
Communist Party's 90th anniversary at the Great Hall of the People in
Beijing, China, on Friday, July 1, 2011.
(AP Photo/Andy Wong) #
Communist party members watch Chinese President Hu Jintao give a speech
inside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing as part of celebrations
for the Chinese Communist Party's 90th anniversary on July 1, 2011.
(Peter Parks/AFP/Getty Images) #
A Chinese ethnic minority communist party member who was honored inside
the Great Hall of the People walks in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, on
July 1, 2011.
(Peter Parks/AFP/Getty Images) #
An actor dressed as a Communist Red Army soldier aims his rifle during a
battle re-enactment of the Defense of Yan'an, at a tourist attraction
in Yan'an, in northwestern China's Shaanxi province, on Wednesday, June
29, 2011.
(AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan) #
Participants rest before a revolutionary song singing competition in Chongqing municipality, on June 30, 2011.
(Reuters/Jason Lee) #
Guests attend an event to celebrate the 90th anniversary of the
founding of the Communist Party of China, at the Mercedes-Benz Arena in
Shanghai, China, on June 30, 2011.
(Reuters/Carlos Barria) #
Students wave the flags of Communist Party of China during the opening
ceremony of a revolutionary song singing concert at Chongqing Olympic
Sports Center, on June 29, 2011. More than 70,000 people attended the
ceremony.
(Reuters/Jason Lee) #
Students perform during the opening ceremony of a revolutionary song
singing concert at Chongqing Olympic Sports Center, on June 29, 2011.
(Reuters/Jason Lee) #
Dancers perform during a gala show to celebrate the 90th anniversary of
the founding of the Communist Party of China in the Great Hall of the
People, on June 28, 2011 in Beijing, China.
(Feng Li/Getty Images) #
Performers wearing costumes with the emblem of the Chinese Communist
Party sing in a revolutionary songs singing event in Chongqing
municipality, on June 28, 2011.
(Reuters/Jason Lee) #
A performer holds a flag of the Communist Party of China during an
event to celebrate the upcoming 90th anniversary of the founding of the
party, at the Mercedes-Benz Arena in Shanghai, on June 30, 2011.
(Reuters/Carlos Barria) #
A choir sings "red songs" on stage to mark the 90th anniversary of the
Communist Party of China on June 30, 2011 in Binzhou, Shandong Province
of China.
(ChinaFotoPress/Getty Images) #
Participants, dressed in Red Army uniforms, sing during a revolutionary
song singing competition in Chongqing municipality, on June 30, 2011.
(Reuters/Jason Lee) #
A child is held aloft before an emblem of the Communist Party of China,
in Tiananmen Square, on June 30, 2011 in Beijing, China.
(Feng Li/Getty Images) #
Singers perform during a gala show to celebrate the 90th anniversary of
the founding of the Communist Party of China in the Great Hall of the
People, on June 28, 2011 in Beijing, China.
(Feng Li/Getty Images) #
Participants wave Chinese national and party flags during the opening
ceremony of a revolutionary concert at Chongqing Olympic Sports Center,
on June 29, 2011.
(Reuters/Jason Lee) #
Students perform for the opening ceremony of a revolutionary concert at Chongqing Olympic Sports Center, on June 29, 2011.
(Reuters/Jason Lee) #
A huge symbol of the Chinese Communist Party, illuminated in Tiananmen Square on June 30, 2011, in Beijing, China.
(ChinaFotoPress/Getty Images) #
Performers hold flags of the Communist Party of China during an event
to celebrate the 90th anniversary of the founding of the party, at the
Mercedes-Benz Arena in Shanghai, on June 30, 2011.
(Reuters/Carlos Barria) #
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