Xi Jinping delivers a speech during his party s 100th anniversary celebrations.
Beijing, China:
President Xi Jinping hailed China s irreversible course from colonial humiliation to great-power status at the centenary celebrations for the Chinese Communist Party on Thursday, in a speech reaching deep into history to remind patriots at home and rivals abroad of his nation s and his own ascendancy.
Speaking above the giant portrait of Mao Zedong which dominates Tiananmen Square, from the podium where the famous chairman proclaimed the People s Republic of China in 1949, Xi said the era of China being bullied is gone forever , praising the party for raising incomes and restoring national pride.