Standing in the front row at the founding ceremony are the six vice-chairmen of the Central People's Government at that time, from left to right: Zhu De, Liu Shaoqi, Soong Ching Ling, Li Jishen, Zhang Lan, and Gao Gang.

The founding celebration of the People's Republic of China is sacred, and history has recorded many precious shots. Among them, the photos of the Tiananmen Gate Tower are particularly exciting. According to the regulations at the time, only members of the Central People's Government could ascend the rostrum of Tiananmen Rostrum at the founding ceremony. In other words, there were 63 leaders of New China who were "qualified" to climb Tiananmen Gate during the founding ceremony of the People's Republic of China.

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After reviewing the literature and summarizing the memories of the parties involved, there were more than 600 people (the specifics are unknown) who climbed onto the Tiananmen Gate Tower during the Founding Ceremony, mainly two categories of people:< /p>

1. New China leaders, CPPCC representatives and alternate representatives;

2. Security service personnel, journalists and specially invited personnel, etc.

Category 1 is divided into five types of personnel:

1. 142 party representatives. Among them: 16 representatives from the Communist Party of China, the Kuomintang Revolutionary Committee, and the Democratic League;

China Democratic National Construction Association, non-party democrats, China Association for the Promotion of Democracy, Chinese Peasants and Workers Democratic Party, Chinese People’s Salvation Congress, and the Three People’s Liberation Army There are 12, 10, 8 to 5 representatives each from the Comrade Comrades Federation, the Chinese Kuomintang Democracy Promotion Association, the China Zhi Gong Party, the Jiu San Society, the Taiwan Democratic Self-Government League, and the New Democratic Youth League.

2. 102 regional representatives. Among them: 15 representatives each from the Northwest, North China, East China, Northeast, and Central China Liberated Areas; 8 representatives from the South China Liberated Areas; 6 representatives from the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region; 6 representatives from the municipalities directly under the jurisdiction of Beiping and Tianjin; and 7 democrats from the liberated areas.

3. 60 military representatives. Among them: 12 representatives from the People's Liberation Army Headquarters and the Navy and Air Force; 10 representatives from each of the First, Second, Third and Fourth Field Armies; and 8 representatives from the South China People's Liberation Army.

4. 206 group representatives. Among them: All-China Federation of Trade Unions, 16 representatives each of farmers' groups in liberated areas; All-China Women's Federation, National Business and Industry Circle, All-China Literary and Art Workers Association, All-China Science Conference Preparatory Committee, National Education Circle, and National Social Science Workers

15 representatives each from overseas Chinese democrats and other units; 12 representatives each from the All-China Democratic Youth Federation and the All-China Journalists Association preparatory meeting; representatives from the All-China Student Federation and people's organizations from all walks of life in Shanghai 9 people each; 7 representatives of democratic figures in religious circles.

The above four situations total 45 units, producing 510 official representatives. According to regulations, all units participating in the new CPPCC will elect 2 alternate representatives if the number of representatives reaches 10; if the number of representatives is less than 10, 1 alternate representative will be elected. Therefore, 77 more alternate representatives were created.

5. Specially invited representatives, ***75 people. Among them:

Specially invited chief representative Soong Ching Ling; Liang Sicheng, son of Liang Qichao, one of the leaders of the Reform Movement of 1898; Zhang Yuanji, the former Qing Hanlin; Sa Zhenbing, the elder of the modern Chinese navy; Zhang Nanxian, an old member of the Tongmenghui; an educator during the reign of the Beiyang warlords Zhang Shizhao and Jiang Yong, the General Secretary and Chief Justice; Zhang Zhizhong, Shao Lizi, etc. who served as peace talks representatives of the Nanjing Government of the Kuomintang; Fu Zuoyi, Cheng Qian, etc., important uprising generals of the Kuomintang; Well-known figures in the cultural and educational circles such as Tao Menghe and Lu Zhiwei; well-known figures in the art world such as Zhou Xinfang, Mei Lanfang, Yuan Xuefen, etc.; labor models and heroic figures in workers and peasants such as Liu Yingyuan, Yan Cunlin, Rong Guanxiu and others.

The second type of people are those who, due to the nature of their work or special circumstances, were lucky enough to climb the Tiananmen Gate Tower during the founding ceremony and stand with the leaders of New China.

The first is security service personnel. Because they shoulder important tasks, they have a special status. Such as Mao Zedong's guards He Qinghua, Zhao Hetong and Zhu De's guards Guan Kaizhi, etc.

The second is journalists. They needed to record important historical moments and disseminate information about the founding of New China to home and abroad as soon as possible, so they were also allowed to board Tiananmen Square.

There were three photographers who boarded the Tiananmen Gate Tower at that time: Yang Zhenya (reporter of the Pictorial Office of the Political Department of the North China Military Region), Chen Zhengqing (reporter of the Northeast Pictorial Office), Hou Bo (Chief of the Photography Section of Zhongnanhai), and Beijing Xinhua Radio announcers Ding Yilan, Qi Yue, Li Pu (Xinhua News Agency reporter), etc.

There were also Soviet cameramen who came from the Soviet Union to support them. At that time, China itself had not yet mastered color photography technology. Therefore, during Liu Shaoqi’s visit to the Soviet Union from June to August 1949, Stalin took the initiative to propose Soviet photographers helped capture the grand occasion of the founding ceremony of New China. These 12 photographers took photos from the afternoon to the evening of that day, from Mao Zedong's speech, flag raising, military parade to parade, and took dozens of films in one day.

Unfortunately, in the middle of the night on October 2, an unexpected fire hit the room where these films were stored. Films are flammable, and most of them were burned. What little was saved was saved. Film is exactly those one or two minutes of extremely precious footage.