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Carrie Lam is seen with other Chinese leaders. Image source, Getty Images. Step by step, China was establishing a road with Chinese characteristics, a road that would lead to socialist modernization. Profound changes have come about in China since the country embarked on the policy of reform and opening-up.

This period is the best ever since the founding of the People's Republic of China, one characterized by rapid and vigorous economic advance and markedly improved living standards. Succeeding him, Hu Jintao took the position of general secretary of the CPC Central Committee in and president of the state in Large-scale agricultural capital construction and technical transformation got underway.

Unfortunately, the "cultural revolution," which lasted for ten years May October , made the state and its people suffer the most serious setbacks and losses since its founding.

The Jiang Qing counter-revolutionary clique was smashed in October , marking the end of the "cultural revolution," and the beginning of a new era in Chinese history. The CPC reinstated Deng Xiaoping, previously general secretary of the CPC, in all the Party and governmental posts he had been dismissed from during the "cultural revolution. Major efforts were made to reform the economic and political systems.

China was step by step establishing a road with Chinese characteristics, a road that would lead to socialist modernization. Profound changes have come about in China since the country embarked on the policy of reform and opening-up.

Their peaceful demonstration was brutally suppressed by the communist authorities. The image of tanks rolling down Tiananmen Square changed the global meaning of the square from a political space designed to celebrate the successes of the Chinese communist revolution and national unity, to a space of resistance to authoritarian rule and oppression.

Read more: 'Tiananmen Square is being cleansed with blood': horror of that night lives on after 25 years. In the aftermath, there were no mass gathering or mega events held on Tiananmen Square for the next decade.

While the National Day parade was similar in style to previous parades, it showed the changing political priorities of the CCP leadership as China moved towards the 21st century. Social, cultural and technical feats were celebrated on floats following the military display.