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Celebration of the 20th Anniversary of the Founding of the People’s Republic of China Special Issue CHINA PICTORIAL No.12 1969 UNITE TO WIN STILL GREATER VICTORIES. MAO TSETUNG Front Cover: Chairman Mao, the great leader of the Chinese people, and his close comrade-in-arms Vice-Chairman Lin Piao on the Tien An Men rostrum Chairman Mao, the great leader of the people of all nationalities of China 1 With boundless happiness, worker-peasant-soldier representatives taking part in the National Day celebrations cheer enthusiastically: “Long live Chairman Mao!” “A long, long life to Chairman Mao!” The great leader Chairman Mao on the Tien An Men rostrum VICE-CHAIRMAN I At the Rally Celebrating Founding of the Pe Comrades and Friends, Today is the twentieth anniversary of the founding of the great People’s Republic of China. At this time when the people throughout the country are joyously celebrating this glorious festive occasion, on behalf of our great leader Chairman Mao, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Government of the People’s Republic of China, I extend salute to the working class, the poor and lower-middle peasants, the Red Guards, the revolutionary cadres and the revolutionary intellectuals of all nationalities of our country! Salute to the heroic Chinese People’s Liberation Army! Salute to all those people and overseas Chinese who love our socialist motherland! Warm welcome and greet ings to our comrades and friends coming from various countries of the world! On the eve of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, our great leader Chairman Mao solemnly pro claimed to the whole world: The Chinese people comprising one quarter of humanity have now stood up. From the very day of its birth, the great socialist New China, like the sun rising in the east, illuminates every corner of the land with a brilliant flame. From then on, the history of our country has entered a completely new era! In the past twenty years, the entire Chinese people under the brilliant leader ship of our great leader Chairman Mao, following Chairman Mao’s proletarian revolutionary line, maintaining indepen dence and keeping the initiative in their own hands, relying on their own elforts, waging arduous struggles and working hard, have transformed a backward semi- Vice-Chairman Lin Piao addressing the rally feudal and semi-colonial old China into in celebration of the 20th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China an advanced socialist New China. Our motherland has undergone earth-shaking changes. In the course of struggle over the past twenty years, we have consolidated the political power of the proletariat, vic toriously smashed the subversive schemes and disruptive activities of the enemies at home and abroad and achieved great successes in socialist revolution and socialist construction. While carrying out socialist revolution on the economic front, we have also carried out socialist 4 i IN PIAO’S SPEECH the 20th Anniversary of the pie's Republic of China revolution on the political, ideological extensive and deep-going way the mass Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence. and cultural fronts. The Great Pro movement for the living study and ap Our stand is: We will not attack unless letarian Cultural Revolution personally plication of Mao Tsetung Thought and we are attacked; if we are attacked, we initiated and led by Chairman Mao has do an even better job of ideological revolu- will certainly counter-attack. The people completely shattered the bourgeois head tionization. We must firmly grasp rev of the whole country must heighten their quarters headed by the renegade, hidden olutionary mass criticism, carry out the vigilance, strengthen preparedness against traitor and scab Liu Shao-chi and smashed tasks of struggle-criticism-transformation war and be ready at all times to wipe out their plot to restore capitalism. The conscientiously, carry the Great Prole all the enemies who dare to invade us. unprecedented wide dissemination of great tarian Cultural Revolution through to We are determined to liberate Taiwan. Mao Tsetung Thought and its being the end and further consolidate the dic We warn U.S. imperialism and social- grasped by hundreds of millions of people tatorship of the proletariat. We must imperialism: The heroic Chinese people are changing enormously people’s mental resolutely carry out Chairman Mao’s and Chinese People’s Liberation Army outlook and promoting the steady de great strategic policy “Be prepared against armed with Mao Tsetung Thought are velopment of our cause of socialism. war, be prepared against natural disasters, invincible. Should you insist on impos Our socialist motherland is thriving and and do everything for the people” ; grasp ing a war on the Chinese people, we growing ever more prosperous. The revolution, promote production and other will keep you company and resolutely people of all nationalities of our country work and preparedness against war; go fight to the finish! On the vast land of are more united than ever before. The all out, aim high and achieve greater, China, wherever you go, there will be dictatorship of the proletariat has become faster, better and more economical results your burial ground! even more consolidated. The great in building socialism and unfold a new We will always uphold proletarian socialist China, standing like a giant in upsurge in revolution and production. internationalism and firmly support the the East, has become a powerful political Comrades! We must rally even more heroic Albanian people in their struggle force against imperialism and revisionism. closely around the Party’s Central Com against imperialism and revisionism; firm All our victories are victories of Mao mittee headed by Chairman Mao and ly support the heroic Vietnamese people Tsetung Thought and of Chairman Mao’s strengthen the Party’s centralized and in carrying their war against U.S. aggres proletarian revolutionary line. The prac unified leadership. We must follow sion and for national salvation through tice of our socialist revolution proves Chairman Mao’s teachings, remain to the end; firmly support the Laotian that the theory, line, principles and policies modest and prudent and guard against people in their just struggle against the of continuing the revolution under the arrogance and rashness, continue to de invasion of Laos by U.S. imperialism dictatorship of the proletariat advanced velop the vigorous proletarian revolu and the reactionaries of Thailand; firmly by our great leader Chairman Mao tionary spirit, carry on for ever the support the Palestinian people and the constitute most important new contribu glorious revolutionary tradition of hard people of all Arab countries in their just tions to the theory and practice of struggle, bring into full play the initiative struggle against U.S. imperialism and Marxism-Leninism and have opened up and creativeness of the broad masses Zionism; and firmly support the revolu a brilliant road for consolidating the and build our socialist motherland into tionary struggles of all the oppressed dictatorship of the proletariat, preventing a more prosperous and powerful country nations and people of the five continents! capitalist restoration and carrying the and build up a more powerful national People of the world, unite and oppose socialist revolution through to the end defence. the war of aggression launched by any after the seizure of political power by In the past twenty years, most pro imperialism or social-imperialism, es the proletariat. From their protracted found changes have taken place in the pecially one in which atom bombs are struggles, the people of the whole country international situation. The revolution used as weapons! If such a war breaks have come to realize the truth: Closely ary movement of the people of various out, the people of the world should use following our great leader Chairman countries is surging to unprecedented revolutionary war to eliminate the war Mao means victory. heights, while U.S. imperialism and social- of aggression, and preparations should At the Party’s Ninth National Con imperialism are becoming more isolated be made right now! gress of far-reaching historical significance, than ever before. In order to extricate Long live the great People’s Republic Chairman Mao issued the great call themselves from the predicament of being of China! “Unite to win still greater victories,” beset with difficulties both at home and Long live the great, glorious and which has greatly inspired the fighting abroad, U.S. imperialism and social- correct Communist Party of China! will of the people throughout the country. imperialism are colluding and at the same Long live the victory of Chairman Now we must continue to hold aloft time contending with each other, carrying Mao’s proletarian revolutionary line! the banner of unity and victory of the out arms expansion and war preparations Long live invincible Marxism- Party’s Ninth Congress, carry out in an and wildly attempting to engineer a war Leninism-Mao Tsetung Thought! all-round way the fighting tasks set forth of aggression against our country and Long live our great leader Chairman by the Party’s Ninth Congress and im flagrantly resorting to nuclear blackmail Mao! A long, long life to Chairman plement all Chairman Mao’s proletarian against us. In the relations between Mao! policies. We must carry on in a more countries, China has always upheld the 5 V I ■ » if] C f < • ® iKjj »ij h»- &** ■ : The great leader Chairman Mao and his close comrade-in-arms Vice-Chairman Po-ta, Member < Lin together with foreign friends from all parts of the world on the Tien An Men Committee of the rostrum. From left: Haki Toska, leader of the Albanian Party and Government gation of the Na Delegation; Kang Sheng, Member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Congo (] of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party; Madame Raoul; Chen Choi Yong Kun HAIRMAN Mao, the great leader of the people of all nationalities Tien An Men Square presented a magnificent scene on this festive occa C of China, and his close comrade-in-arms Vice-Chairman Lin Piao sion.