China is hosting enormously lavish events to mark october 1st, the 70th anniversary of the founding of the peoples republic of china. The communist leadership has organised a huge military parade in beijing, and is hoping the big day isnt overshadowed by demonstrations in hong kong. Live now to beijing our correspondent robin brant is there. What you can probably see what you can policy now is a long shot. That is why the consequences of the industrial progress. Over the last seven decades, since its founding in 1949. I keep picking down to the left. The only one amongst the senior leaders. The most Senior Leadership here in china. He is now 93. This is the beginning of the parade. Taking part, about 600 pieces of military equipment on display. About 160 aircraft flying over. The military on the run up to today, have said they dont want this to be seen as a show of force, china flexing its muscles. There might be some scepticism about that. It does want the world to see this parade the
In terrible conditions for stealing vanilla beans. China is hosting enormously lavish events to mark october 1st, the 70th anniversary of the founding of the peoples republic of china. The communist leadership has organised a huge military parade in beijing, and is hoping the big day isnt overshadowed by demonstrations in hong kong. Transmack today, a socialist china is standing in the midst of the world. And there is no force that can shake the foundation of this great nation. No force can stop the Chinese People in the chinese nation forging ahead. In a moment well speak to the bbcs mariko oi in hong kong, but first lets go live now to beijing. Our correspondent robin brant is there. Robin, significant not only what the president was saying but where he was standing on what he was wearing. In exactly the same spot, where chairman mao, the revolutionary founding father of the peoples republic stood in 1949 to declare that the communists had one a civil warand it that the communists ha
Let us talk about that big celebration. China is marking its 70th anniversary and with it one of the most extraordinary and rapid economic transformations in history. From a relative financial minnow, the communist state has grown to become the worlds second biggest economy. As you can see from this graph, chinese economic expansion accelerated dramatically in the 1990s as a result of mass privatisations, and the opening up of the country but to Foreign Investment. But after decades of super charged growth the asian powerhouse only grew by 6. 2 year on year in the Second Quarter a far cry from the 14 growth of the 90s. But that all sounds worse than it is china has, to some degree, being intentionally slowing its economy as it moves away from dependency on investment towards more consumer driven growth. But there is a problem. The china us trade war. So far the us has imposed tariffs on more than 360 billion of chinese goods, and china has retaliated with tariffs on more than 110bn of
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