Editor: Wang Yi, He Wenguang

Leaders
' Concern



  Chairman Mao Zedong and Premier Zhou Enlai accompany Ho Chi Minh, Chairman of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, in reviewing the guard of honor at the airport on June 25, 1955.


  Deng Xiaoping accompanies Kim ll Sung, General Secretary of the Labor Party Central Committee of DPRK, in reviewing the guard of honor of the three services of the PLA on November 5,1989.


  President Jiang Zemin accompanies U.S. President Clinton in reviewing the guard of honor of the three services of the PLA on the square outside the East Gate of the Great Hall of the People on June 27, 1998.


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Preface

  Since its founding on October 1, 1949, New China has engaged in frequent diplomatic activities. Thanks to the concern of Mao Zedong and other veteran revolutionaries, the Guard of Honor of the three services of the People's Liberation Army (PLA), representing "China's dignity and the army's image" , was organized in Beijing in 1952 and marched onto China's political stage.

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  Some photos and reports are cited from the book "The P.L.A. Guards of Honor" published by the P.L.A. Publishing House in 2001.----editor

 

 

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