HI-TECH CHINA

SOLAR P-V

LARGEST ASIAN TRAVEL MART

AGRICULTURE ACROSS THE STRAITS

CHONGQING-TAIWAN COOPERATION

CHINNOVATIONS

A Dead Body Found In Suitcase

HK Woman Takes Deadly Plunge

Guangzhou Hotel Lobby Brawl 

Mainland Students For Taiwan

Miracle Car Crash In Taiwan

Man Sells Own Kids

"Farmer" Buys A Fighter Jet

All eyes were on Peng Dehuai and Yang Chengwu, the Commander and Commander-in-Chief of the 1956 National Parade, as well as almost 12,000 troops marching down a glistening Chang’an Avenue. 

Just months after Russian tanks violently crushed opposition to the Soviet-backed communist government in Budapest, China was extending its influence to non-aligned countries in a subtler way.

Foreign guests at the 1956 parade included the Indonesian President Dewi Sukarno and the Nepalese Prime Minister Acharya – as well as representatives from over 50 countries.

But there were no American journalists amongst the onlookers despite the Chinese government lifting a seven year ban and inviting US reporters to visit China. The offer, which came just three years after the two countries had been fighting each other in Korea was rebuffed. And the US continued its ban on any Americans visiting the People’s Republic.

As usual the parade showed off the latest military hardware: some of the first Chinese made tanks took part along with rocket launchers and other missiles.

But the unwelcome appearance of the heavy rain was also the reason behind the non-appearance of China’s first domestically produced fighter jet, the J-5. It had been planned that these would fly over the revue stand, but in the event the weather made this impossible. It was a blow to the crowds of onlookers expecting to see China’s first indigenous jet fighter flying in the skies over Beijing. And the debut of the new fighter would have to wait until the sunnier skies of 1957.

Cooler Power

Credit Cards For Tourists

American Standard

Around The World In A Day

Three Gorges Dam Rules

Nasdaq For Sme's

GREEN FOOD

STABILIZING VEGGIE MARKETS

CROSS-STRAIT AGRICULTURE