*Source: DTN News / Int'l Media
(NSI News Source Info) BEIJING, China - July 25, 2009: PREPARATIONS are under way for China's military dress parade in Tian'anmen Square on October 1 in celebration of the 60th anniversary of the People's Republic of China.
Female militia march during a rehearsal for a parade to celebrate the country's national day in Taiyuan, Shanxi province July 25, 2009. China will celebrate the 60th anniversary of its founding on October 1 this year.
The "solemn, enthusiastic but frugal" parade will showcase China's domestic weapons used by all branches of the armed forces, Colonel Cai Huailie told a press conference held by the Information Office of the State Council, or Cabinet, yesterday.
The parade will also include a demonstration of the equipment of the People's Armed Police Force and Militia and Reserve Forces, said Cai, who is with the Headquarters of the General Staff of the People's Liberation Army.
The 2009 parade, compared with previous ones, will showcase the military's progression from mechanization to information based weaponry. New army uniforms and plenty of new domestic weapons will be included, said Luo Yuan, a military expert with the Academy of Military Sciences.
"More importantly, the parade can greatly inspire military morale, in wartime or peaceful periods," he added.
China has held 13 military parades through Beijing's main east-west artery, Chang'an Avenue, and across Tian'anmen, a prominent symbol of the republic.
The late Mao Zedong reviewed the nation's first military parade in the country's founding ceremony on October 1, 1949. There were 10 parades through 1959. The ceremony was suspended until October 1, 1984, when the late Deng Xiaoping inspected an all-services parade that marked the debut of China's Strategic Missile Corps.
The most recent parade took place in 1999 for the 50th anniversary of the PRC.
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