Wang Xin, the author of Singing the Motherland.
The song "Singing the Motherland" was written by Wang Xin in the early 1950s. Wang Xin attended the inauguration ceremony. On the observation deck, when he saw the parade shouting slogans through Tiananmen Square, he thought it would be great if people could sing through Tiananmen Square, so he made up his mind to write a song that everyone loved to sing.
Wang Xin 1936 joined the revolution, and 1943 joined the China * * * Production Party. He has served as head of Tianjin Music Troupe, vice president of Tianjin People's Art Theatre, president of Tianjin Song and Dance Theatre, executive director of China Music Association, chairman of Tianjin Music Association and vice chairman of Tianjin Federation of Literary and Art Circles. 1954 "Singing the Motherland" won the first prize in the national pop song selection. 1989 "Singing the Motherland" won the Golden Record Award of China Record Corporation.
Winner of Golden Bell Award, Lifetime Achievement Award of Chinese Music Association. His representative works include Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei, Sunrise on the Mountain, Battle Production, Village Chief Election and so on. 20 19 June, the masterpiece "Singing the Motherland" was selected by the Propaganda Department of the Communist Party of China 100 as an excellent song to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China. He died in Tianjin on the morning of June 65438+1October 65438+May 2007 at the age of 89.