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Summary Chinese nation is celebrating 62nd National Day across the country in a befitting manner.
Top Chinese leaders laid baskets of flowers at the Monument to the Peoples Heroes in the center of Beijing on Saturday morning to mark New Chinas National Day, October 1.Hu Jintao, Wu Bangguo, Wen Jiabao, Jia Qinglin, Li Changchun, Xi Jinping, Li Keqiang, He Guoqiang and Zhou Yongkang participated in the ceremony to pay tribute to those who sacrificed their lives for the founding of the Peoples Republic of China.The leaders then walked around the monument, viewing the relief sculptures and inscriptions that display the history of Chinas struggles for modernity in nearly two centuries.They joined 3,600 representatives from all walks of life in Beijing in the ceremony to mark the 62nd anniversary of founding of the Peoples Republic of China.The ceremony shows the countrys respect for its past and encourages the Chinese people to make greater achievements in the future, said Yang Yu, a Beijing-based news analyst during the live broadcast of the China Central Television.The ceremony came just two days after the successful launch of Chinas first space lab module Tiangong-1, or Heavenly Palace-1, which is seen as a critical step for China to develop the space docking technology and a milestone of the countrys manned space program.
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