A brief and solemn ceremony was held in Beijing on Wednesday to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the death of Sun Yat-sen, a Chinese revolutionary and statesman.
The ceremony in Zhongshan Park in the center of Beijing, named in his honor, was attended by representatives from all social sectors in China's capital.
At 10:30, attendees stood in silent tribute and bowed three times in front of Sun's statue. Some representatives presented flower baskets to Sun's statue.
He Baoxiang, vice chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) National Committee and executive vice chairman of the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang (RCCK) Central Committee, presided over the ceremony.
Sun was born in 1866 and passed away in 1925. He is known to the Chinese people as a great pioneer of China's democratic revolution because of his leading role in the 1911 Revolution -- which ended more than 2,000 years of feudal rule in China.
Sun Yat-sen remembered 100 years after death
China and Russia are set to further strengthen subnational cooperation through two key subnational mechanisms, the Yangtze-Volga Local cooperation and the Northeast-Far East cooperation, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian said Friday.
Lin made the remarks at a press conference in Beijing, highlighting the role of the cooperation mechanisms in boosting bilateral economic and cultural ties.
"Under the strategic guidance of the two head of states, China-Russia relations have been moving forward on a high level and subnational cooperation has been advancing with wider scope and higher quality. The Yangtze-Volga cooperation council and the China-Russia Intergovernmental Commission on Cooperation and Development of Northeast China and the Far East and Baikal Region of Russia, as two major subnational cooperation mechanisms between China and Russia, since their establishment have been operating with high efficiency and played an important role in promoting economic and trade cooperation as well as people-to-people and cultural exchanges between relevant regions of China and Russia in a coordinated manner," Lin said.
"We believe that under the strategic guidance of the two head of states and with joint effort of both sides, subnational cooperation between China and Russia will continue to grow with vigor and vitality and inject more impetus to our effort of enriching the bilateral relationship, delivering more benefits to the two peoples and boosting our respective development and revitalization," said the spokesman.
China, Russia to enhance subnational ties through key cooperation platforms
