The Whole Country Rejoices: Beijing Wins the Right to Host the 2008 Olympic Games

Since the founding of the People's Republic of China on October 1, 1949, New China has gone through 60 years of ups and downs. History is a mirror, and we can interpret it from multiple perspectives and sides. However, one thing is certain, that is, under the leadership of the Communist Party of China for more than half a century, profound changes have taken place in China's politics, economy, military, diplomacy, culture, education, science and technology, society, people's livelihood and other fields. The Chinese people have stood up, and the Chinese nation has stood firm among the nations of the world. 60 Years is short, but what these 60 years have brought to China is extremely extraordinary. In the past 60 years, the land of China has experienced tremendous changes. From the founding ceremony to the 60th Anniversary Celebration, from the three major battles on the economic front to the third largest economy in the world, from the three major transformations of agriculture, handicrafts, and capitalist industry and commerce to the basic establishment of the socialist market economic system, from chasing down the poor to the establishment of a strong national defense force, from the abolition of all unequal conditions From the independent foreign policy of peace, from the "Double Hundred" policy to the thriving cultural undertakings after institutional reform, from eradicating illiteracy to implementing the strategy of rejuvenating the country through science and education to building a new country, from liberation to realizing a moderately prosperous society, the Chinese people have left footprints of development in every field and written immortal poems. Sixty years can be said to be a drop in the ocean in the long river of history. What exactly happened during this period, how it happened, what the process was, and what the result was, are not clearly known to everyone. For those who have experienced it personally, it may be as vivid as yesterday, but for those who come later, it may be just a concept, and the memory image of a certain period of history may not exist or be vague. Based on this, in order to let young people, especially teenagers, always remember this immortal history of the Republic, we launched this set of "Stories of the Republic".