The Monument to the People's Heroes is located in the center of Tiananmen Square in Beijing. 1On September 30th, 949, the first plenary session of China People's Political Consultative Conference decided to build a monument to the people's heroes in the capital, Beijing, to commemorate the people's heroes who died in the People's Liberation War and the People's Revolution.
The Monument to the People's Heroes is square with a building area of 3,000 square meters. The monument is divided into three parts: the monument body, the base of Mount Sumi and the base, with a height of 37.94 meters. The base is divided into upper and lower floors, surrounded by white marble railings and steps.
The two-story Xumi Mountain supports the tall monument. The monument is a big stone, with a length of 1 4.7m, a width of 2.9m, a thickness of1m and a weight of more than 60 tons. The front (north) of the monument is engraved with Mao Zedong's inscription "The people's heroes are immortal" in eight gold-plated characters; On the back is an inscription drafted by Mao Zedong and inscribed by Zhou Enlai:
In the past three years, the people's heroes who died in the People's Liberation War and the People's Revolution are immortal!
For more than 30 years, the people's heroes who died in the people's liberation war and the people's revolution are immortal! This can be traced back to 1840. Since then, in order to oppose domestic and foreign enemies, strive for national independence and people's freedom and happiness, the people's heroes who died in previous struggles are immortal!
The monument was officially started on August 1952, completed on April 22/958, and grandly unveiled on May 1 of the same year.