Victory of the Chinese people (1950)

Landscapes.

Beijing.

Ceremonial meeting in People's Square in Beijing dedicated to the establishment of the People's Republic of China (October 1, 1949).

On the government tribune are the leaders of the Communist Party Liu Shaoqi, Zhou Enlai, Gao Gang, generals of the People's Liberation Army, vice-chairmen of the Central Government Zhang Lan, Li Jishen and Sunn Jinling - the widow of Sun Yat-sen, the leader of the Communist Party of China, Chairman of the Chinese Soviets Mao Zedong.

Mao Zedong proclaims the birth of the People's Republic of China (synchronously).

Cannon salute in honor of the victory over Chiang Kai-shek.

Parade of troops of the People's Liberation Army.

The parade is received by the Commander-in-Chief of the People's Liberation Army Zhu De.

Landscapes.

The Great Wall of China.

Statues of gods, sculptures that characterize China as a country of ancient culture.

Newsreel: Footage that tells about the hard life and backbreaking labor of peasants in China before 1949. Shanghai.

Shanghai port.

Coolies unload a steamer.

Rickshaws on the streets of Shanghai.

Junks on the Shanghai Canal.

The bridge near Beijing, from where the new provocative Japanese invasion of Northern China began in 1937. Chiang Kai-shek signs an agreement with the communists on a joint fight against the Japanese.

Mao Zedong speaks to the people in Yanan.

The people go to Yanan to join the guerrilla movement against the Japanese invaders.

Certain moments in the fight of the Chinese guerrillas against the Japanese.

The Eighth Army fights in the mountains (photographed by Zhu De and Pen De-hua).

Map of the defeat of Japanese troops by the Soviet Army (1945).

People at the monument to Soviet soldiers who died for the freedom of China.

Unloading an American ship.

Artillery shells, guns, tanks sent by the Americans to the Kuomintang to wage a new anti-people counterrevolutionary war.

Brutal reprisals against the civilian population by the Kuomintang.

Kuomintang soldiers killed in battle with units of the People's Liberation Army.

The People's Liberation Army leaves Yanan after heavy fighting (spring 1947).

The population leaves with the army.

The division of land by peasants in the rear of the People's Liberation Army.

The trial of the landowner by peasants (synchronously).

Peasants see off volunteers to the People's Liberation Army.

Recruits of the People's Liberation Army learn rifle techniques.

Recruits on the march.

General Liu Bo Chen's units go on the offensive against the Kuomintang (summer 1947).

Having liberated one of the villages, the soldiers distribute leaflets to the residents; an agitator addresses the population.

Troops of the People's Liberation Army enter Yanan.

Rally to mark the liberation of Yanan.

Harbin meeting of the northeastern bureau of the Communist Party of China.

General Lin Biao reads out Mao Zedong's order to launch a general offensive in Manchuria.

The army moves south.

Diagram: the situation in Manchuria in the fall of 1948. Tashan positions of the People's Liberation Army.

Soldiers rush to the attack.

General Lin Biao in position.

Storming of Jinzhou by troops of the People's Liberation Army.

Kuomintang soldiers surrender.

The Chan Chun garrison surrenders.

Ammunition and provisions are delivered by a circuitous route to the troops going to liberate Mukden.

Gao Gang leads this operation.

The Battle of Liosi: People's Liberation Army troops advance towards Mukden.

Kuomintang troops retreat.

One of the Kuomintang armored units surrenders.

People's Liberation Army soldiers seize the Kuomintang headquarters building in Mukden.

The city of Mukden.

A ceremonial procession through the streets of Mukden to celebrate the liberation of Manchuria.

Shanhaiguan.

A column of soldiers passes through the Western Gate of the Great Wall of China.

The population repairs roads.

A meeting of the Northeastern Bureau of the Communist Party of China.

Gao Gang is among those present.

Scheme: Kalgan – Beijing – Tianjin.

These cities must be taken in order to break through to Central China.

A meeting of the Kalgan Front headquarters.

The seventy-thousand-strong Kuomintang army is surrounded.

Descending from the mountains, the soldiers of the People’s Liberation Army flee to Kalgan.

Kuomintang soldiers captured by the soldiers of the People’s Liberation Army during the capture of Kangan.

A meeting of the Beijing Tianjin Front headquarters.

General Lin Biao explains the combat mission.

The city of Tianjin.

The ditches and fortifications of Tianjin built by the Kuomintang.

General Liu A Mo gives the command to the People's Liberation Army to attack.

The storming of Tianjin by the People's Liberation Army.

Fighting in the streets of the city.

In the center of the city, on the Golden Bridge, the troops of the two People's Liberation Armies meet, advancing from the northeast and southwest.

People's Liberation Army soldiers capture Tianjin defense headquarters.

Kuomintang commandant of Tianjin surrenders.

Views of liberated Tianjin.

Beijing (aircraft footage).

People's Liberation Army General Su receives representatives of the capitulating Beijing garrison.

The Kuomintang guard at the gates of Beijing is replaced by a People's Liberation Army guard.

General Lin Biao's troops enter the city.

General Lin Biao greets them.

Diagram of the Battle of Huacai.

The Third Field Army captures crossings across the Grand Canal of China.

The junction of General Chen Yi's Third Field Army advancing from the east and General Liu Po Chen's Second Field Army advancing from the west.

The Kuomintang bring up tank units under the command of Chiang Kai-shek's son from the south.

People's Liberation Army soldiers attack enemy positions and break into Xuzhou City.

Volunteer porters carry supplies for the People's Liberation Army soldiers.

Volunteer porters carry wounded soldiers to the hospital.

Peasant women sew shoes for the army.

Awarding the best porters.

The fighters who surrounded Du Yu Ming’s Kuomintang group celebrate the New Year of 1949 in the trenches.

Frontline heroes are awarded medals for bravery.

The best fighters are accepted into the Communist Party.

People’s Liberation Army agitators in the trenches.

Kuomintang soldiers surrender.

Selected moments from the final stage of the Battle of Huacai.

Du Yu Ming’s defeated group.

Captured Kuomintang General Du Yu Ming.

Map of the movement of the People’s Liberation Army troops to the Yangtze.

The Yangtze River.

Meeting of the staff of Liu Bo Chen’s Second Field Army.

General Liu Bo Chen is present.

General Li Da reports on the situation.

Meeting of the staff of Chen Yi’s Third Field Army.

General Chen Yi is present.

General Su Yong reports on the situation.

Map of the crossing of the Yangtze.

In preparation for the crossing, volunteer peasants dig canals on the river bank.

Soldiers dig trenches, preparing for the crossing.

A rally at which soldiers swear to win the upcoming battle.

A performance by dancers from army propaganda teams on the eve of the battle.

The Yangtze River at dawn.

Preparations for the crossing of the Yangtze by troops of the People's Liberation Army.

Among the boats on which the crossing is to take place are sailing junks - the dwellings of the poor who voluntarily gave their property to the army.

A mass crossing of junks across the Yangtze.

Kuomintang planes drop bombs on the crossing troops of the People's Liberation Army.

Kuomintang artillery fires at the junks from the shore.

The artillery of the People's Liberation Army fires at the Kuomintang batteries.

The first soldiers of the People's Liberation Army land on the southern bank of the Yangtze.

They capture the first bridgehead.

A mass landing of troops of the People's Liberation Army.

An attack on the height.

A red flag is fixed on the height.

The movement of troops of the People's Liberation Army beyond the Yangtze.

Partisans descend from the mountains to meet the Army.

The capture of Chiang Kai-shek's residence in Nanjing by the People's Liberation Army (April 22, 1949).

The People's Liberation Army troops march through the streets of liberated Nanjing.

Fighters at the Sun Yat Sen Mausoleum.

The city of Shanghai.

Shanghai workers, led by the underground committee of the Communist Party guarding factories and plants, are trying to prevent the Kuomintang from plundering Shanghai before fleeing.

Troops of the People's Liberation Army enter Shanghai through fighting.

Prisoners are released from a Shanghai prison.

The people welcome the troops of the People's Liberation Army passing through the streets of the city.

A meeting of the Military Revolutionary Committee.

Present are Mao Zedong, Liu Shao Qi, Zhou En Lai, Zhu De, and Peng De Hua.

Mao Zedong sets the task of liberating the entire territory of China and eliminating the one and a half million Kuomintang soldiers scattered across it.

Units of the Second Field Army are moving on steamships and barges along the Yangtze to Chongqing.

Troops of the Fourth Field Army are moving along the highway to Canton.

Fighters of the divisional propaganda brigade encourage their comrades on the march.

A halt.

General Ho Long's units march along the mountain road to Chengdu.

General Ho Long looks through binoculars.

General Pen De Hua's troops meet with the population of the city of Lanzhou, which they have liberated.

General Pen De Hua in a group of soldiers.

The city of Canton.

The bridge over the Pearl River, blown up by the Kuomintang during their retreat.

The population welcomes the troops of the People's Liberation Army, who have liberated Canton.

An ambush of partisans near Canton.

Kuomintang soldiers taken prisoner by the partisans.

Kuomintang armored trains, pilots, soldiers, and sailors surrender.

The city of Chongqing.

People's Liberation Army troops march through the city.

General Liu Bo Chen accepts the banner from the people of Chongqing.

The troops that liberated the capital of Yunong Province, Kulming, enter the city.

The population welcomes them.

People's Liberation Army troops enter the city of Chengdu.

An agitator talks to the population.

Kuomintang soldiers and generals captured near Chengdu.

Certain moments in the battles of the Fourth Field Army with the last large group of Chiang Kai-shek's troops near the border with Vietnam.

The capture of the last heights by the People's Liberation Army.

Captured Kuomintang soldiers.

Demonstration in honor of Stalin's 70th birthday.

Zhu De proclaims a toast in honor of I.V. Stalin.

People's celebrations in China in honor of the 70th birthday of I.V. Stalin.