Restaurant employee watch a live television broadcast showing Chinese President Hu Jintao reviewing Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) troops prior to the start of the National Day parade at a restaurant in Beijing on October 1, 2009. China formally kicked off mass celebrations of 60 years of communist rule with a 60-gun salute that rung out across Beijing's historic Tiananmen Square. Getty Images logo Getty Images 2 months ago

Restaurant employee watch a live television broadcast showing Chinese President Hu Jintao reviewing Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) troops prior to the start of the National Day parade at a restaurant in Beijing on October 1, 2009. China formally kicked off mass celebrations of 60 years of communist rule with a 60-gun salute that rung out across Beijing's historic Tiananmen Square.

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  1. BEIJING - NOVEMBER 17: (L-R) US President Barack Obama shakes hands with Chinese President Hu Jintaoafter a joint press conference at the Great Hall of People on November 17, 2009 in Beijing, China. Obama is on an official nine-day, four nation, Asia tour during which he has visited Japan and attended the APEC Summit in Singapore before heading to China. Following his vist to China, where he is expected to discuss the economy, trade and climate change, he will head to South Korea.
  2. BEIJING - NOVEMBER 17: (L-R) US President Barack Obama shakes hands with Chinese President Hu Jintaoafter a joint press conference at the Great Hall of People on November 17, 2009 in Beijing, China. Obama is on an official nine-day, four nation, Asia tour during which he has visited Japan and attended the APEC Summit in Singapore before heading to China. Following his vist to China, where he is expected to discuss the economy, trade and climate change, he will head to South Korea.
  3. Hindu nationalist party Shiv Sena activists burn an effigy of Chinese President Hu Jintao during a protest in New Delhi October 5, 2009. Activists were protesting against the Chinese government decision to offer separate stand-alone visas to residents of Muslim-majority disputed Indian territory Jammu and Kashmir.
  4. Hindu nationalist party Shiv Sena activists burn an effigy of Chinese President Hu Jintao during a protest in New Delhi October 5, 2009. Activists were protesting against the Chinese government decision to offer separate stand-alone visas to residents of Muslim-majority disputed Indian territory Jammu and Kashmir.
  5. Hindu nationalist party Shiv Sena activists burn an effigy of Chinese President Hu Jintao during a protest in New Delhi October 5, 2009. Activists were protesting against the Chinese government decision to offer separate stand-alone visas to residents of Muslim-majority disputed Indian territory Jammu and Kashmir.
  6. Present and former Chinese Communist Party leaders Jiang Zemin (R) and Hu Jintao (L) are seen on a giant screen from National Day celebrations earlier in the day as particiants gather on Tiananmen Square for evening events on October 1, 2009 in Beijing as China celebrated 60 years of communist rule with a military parade and lavish ceremonies showcasing the nation's revival as a global power.
  7. Promotion girls hand out Chinese flags as a television screen shows Chinese President Hu Jintao (upper C) attending National Day celebrations in Beijing, outside of a shopping complex in Hong Kong on October 1, 2009. China celebrated 60 years of communist rule with a massive military parade and elaborate pageantry on Beijing's Tiananmen Square showcasing the nation's revival as a global power.
  8. Chinese President Hu Jintao (3L car) reviews the military personnel during the National Day parade in Beijing on October 1, 2009. China celebrated 60 years of communist rule with a massive military parade and elaborate pageantry on Beijing's Tiananmen Square showcasing the nation's revival as a global power.
  9. Chinese President Hu Jintao (3L car) reviews the military personnel during the National Day parade in Beijing on October 1, 2009. China celebrated 60 years of communist rule with a massive military parade and elaborate pageantry on Beijing's Tiananmen Square showcasing the nation's revival as a global power.
  10. BEIJING - OCTOBER 01: China's President Hu Jintao (C) and other leaders review a parade to mark the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China on October 1, 2009 in Beijing, China. The grand celebrations to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China included a military parade and mass pageant consisting of about 200,000 citizens in Tiananmen Square.
  11. BEIJING - OCTOBER 01: Participants walk infront a portrait of China's President Hu Jintao during a military parade to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China on October 1, 2009 in Beijing, China. The grand celebrations to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China included a military parade and mass pageant consisting of about 200,000 citizens in Tiananmen Square.
  12. A giant portrait of president Hu Jintao is displayed during National Day celebrations in Beijing on October 1, 2009. China formally kicked off mass celebrations of 60 years of communist rule with a 60-gun salute that rung out across Beijing's historic Tiananmen Square but due to security concerns most of Beijing's 17 million citizens were relegated to watching the pageant in their hometown on television like the rest of China.
  13. A giant portrait of President Hu Jintao is displayed during a parade for National Day celebrations in Beijing on October 1, 2009 as China celebrated 60 years of communist rule with a military parade and lavish ceremonies showcasing the nation's revival as a global power.
  14. China's President Hu Jintao, bottom on top of a car, inspects the military parade as China's top leaders watch from Tiananmen Gate to mark the 60th China anniversary in Beijing, China, Thursday, Oct. 1, 2009. To mark 60 years of communist rule China put together its biggest-ever military parade: hundreds of thousands of marchers, batteries of goose-stepping soldiers and weaponry from drone missiles to amphibious assault vehicles.
  15. BEIJING, CHINA - OCTOBER 1: The mass pageant carrying the Hu Jintao's portrait march during the celebrations for the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China in Tian'anmen Square on October 1, 2009. in Beijing, China. The grand celebrations to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China included a military parade and mass pageant consisting of about 200,000 citizens in Tian'anmen Square.
  16. BEIJING, CHINA - OCTOBER 1: The mass pageant carrying the Hu Jintao's portrait march during the celebrations for the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China in Tian'anmen Square on October 1, 2009. in Beijing, China. The grand celebrations to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China included a military parade and mass pageant consisting of about 200,000 citizens in Tian'anmen Square.

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