China Military Parade Series 3: (1 DVD) (English Subtitle)

Release Date: 2005-04-09
Language: Mandarin
Subtitles: Mandarin, English
Country of Origin: China
Picture Format: PAL
Disc Format(s): DVD
Region Code: All Region
Publisher: Zhong Guo San Huan Yin Xiang She Package
Weight: 120 (g)
Screen Format: N/A
Sound Mix: Dolby AC-3
DVD Type: N/A
Extras: N/A


Content
1949 China Military Parade
1959 China Military Parade
1984 China Military Parade

Description:
At 9:40am on October 1, 1984, the Party and government leaders, together with representatives from all walks of life and invited foreign guests, ascended the Tian'anmen Tower.

　　At 10:00am, the military parade began.

　　Standing on an inspection car, Deng Xiaoping first reviewed the guard of honor of the three services. After that, he reviewed the formations of three services one by one. The military review ended at 10:18am, after that, Deng Xiaoping gave an important speech on the Tian'anmen Tower.

　　At 10:23 am, the march past began. The guard of honor of the three services marched in front of all other formations, bearing the PLA flag amid them. And then the officers and men of the three services and various arms in neat formations marched into the Tiananmen Square. Behind them were the motorized and mechanized troops formations, including anti-tank missile units, artillery, land-to-air missile units, and strategic missile units, etc. When the air defense missile formation passed across the Tian'anmen Square, the first air formation flew over the Tian'anmen Tower, which was closely followed by the second air formation. At the time when large trucks towing China-made strategic missiles passed across the Tian'anmen Square, No. 3 Air Formation fly over the Tian'anmen Square at low altitude. And then, No. 4 Air formation flew over. The march past ended at 10:56.

　　This national day military parade was the largest one since the founding of New China, and 28 types of homegrown new weapons and equipment made their debut at the military parade, and 19 of them had reached the world's advanced level.

　　That military parade indicates that the PLA has entered an entirely new stage in its efforts to build itself into a more modernized and regularized army.