President Xi Jinping, visits the memorial hall for the Siping battle in the Chinese People's War of Liberation and pays his tribute to revolutionary martyrs in northeastern Jilin province, July 22. President Xi Jinping, who is also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, has stressed the need to uphold the great socialist cause founded by the CPC and to carry it forward from generation to generation, Xinhua reports. Xi made the remarks Wednesday afternoon during his visit to the memorial hall for the Siping battle of the Chinese People's War of Liberation in northeast Jilin province. During the war, the people's army, led by the CPC, emerged victorious from the Siping battle at the cost of nearly 20,000 lives. From the Nanchang Uprising to the fighting in the Jinggang Mountains, from the extraordinarily formidable Long March to the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and from the Chinese People's War of Liberation to the War to Resist U.S.

Source: The Standard July 23, 2020 05:15 UTC