Chinese Premier visits cemetery and grave of Mao's son
(5 Oct 2009)
Hoechang County
1. Wide of Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao visiting Chinese Martyrs' Cemetery for Chinese soldiers killed in the 1950-53 Korean War
2. Wide of statue of the Unnamed Chinese Soldier
3. Wen walking towards monument, inspecting wreaths
4. Mid of statue
5. Wen and Chinese delegation bowing to monument
6. Grave and bust of Mao Anying, son of Mao Zedong (founding father of modern China)
7. Various of Wen laying flowers and bowing to grave of Mao
8. Mid of other graves of Chinese soldiers
9. Wen walking past graves
10. Pan of graves
Pyongyang
11. North Korean deputy leader Kim Yong Nam greeting and shaking hands with Wen
12. Wide of group photo of Chinese delegation posing with Kim
13. Various of meeting between Kim and Wen
STORYLINE:
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao visited a cemetery in North Korea on Monday for Chinese soldiers killed in the 1950-53 Korean War.
Wen and his delegation inspected wreaths and visited graves at the site in Hoechang county, south of the North Korean capital.
He also visited the grave of Mao Anying, the first son Mao Zedong, who was killed in action during the Korean War.
Wen then met the North's deputy leader Kim Yong Nam in Pyongyang, where the two held talks.
Wen's three-day visit at the head of a high-level delegation is meant to celebrate the 60th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the neighbours, but will include meetings with the North's leader Kim Jong Il who on on Sunday staged a lavish reception for the Chinese.
Western analysts are watching for signs that Wen's visit might lead to Pyongyang returning to nuclear disarmament talks after conducting a nuclear test in April.
On Sunday, Kim greeted Wen personally at the city's airport embracing him on a red carpet and standing beside him as a military band played their country's respective national anthems.
Wen was then driven into the tightly controlled capital in an open-topped car as residents lining the streets danced, waved bunches of flowers, and shouted greetings in unison.
The lavish welcome was a rare honour for a non-head of state, underscoring the importance the North places on its communist neighbours and offering a strong indication that it is planning to re-engage its negotiating partners after boycotting talks while threatening nuclear war and conducting nuclear and missile tests.
Although Wen's three-day visit is officially being held to commemorate 60 years of diplomatic relations, analysts say they doubt he would have agreed to the trip without assurances of new talks.
Kim has reportedly expressed a willingness to engage in bilateral and multilateral talks, although it's unclear if that indicates a willingness to rejoin stalled six-nation disarmament talks that also involve the US, Japan, South Korea and Russia.
China hosts the talks and continues to promote them as the best forum for dealing with the issue.
Pyongyang, however, is believed to favour direct negotiations with the United States.
During his visit, Wen is overseeing a series of agreements on trade and other bilateral issues, will meet with top leaders, and attend events commemorating historical ties.
Under the six-nation framework, North Korea pledged in September 2005 to dismantle its nuclear programs in exchange for pledges of energy assistance and diplomatic concessions.
Progress has been bumpy, and North Korea walked away from the talks in April to protest world criticism of a rocket launch.
In May, it further escalated tensions by conducting a nuclear test, drawing a rebuke from Beijing and sanctions from the United Nations.
Pyongyang has begun to take a more conciliatory approach, most recently allowing meetings of family members separated by the 1950-53 Korean War.
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China commemorates 120th birth anniv. of Mao Zedong
China is celebrating the 120th birth anniversary of its founding father Mao Zedong. A number of ceremonies are being held across the country to mark the occassion. In Mao's hometown of Shaoshan in the southern Province of Hunan, authorities on Tuesday offered flowers to the statue of Mao. Locals were joined by admirers from across the country at a memorial hall established to remember the leader. In the Jinggang Mountains, regarded as the birthplace of the Chinese revolution led by Mao Zedong, visitors tried to experience the tough life of Chinese Red Army soldiers. Dressed in the uniforms of the Red Army, nearly a hundred people marched through a five-kilometer road that Mao and his troops walked decades ago. Meanwhile, symposiums remembering Mao Zedong have been held in Xibaipo in the northern province of Hebei. The village served as the Chinese Communist Party's headquarters in the late 1940s. In Yan'an, a key base of the Chinese Red Army, an art exhibition featuring the Chinese revolution has attracted many visitors. Born in 1893, Mao Zedong was the leader of the Chinese Communist Party, the People's Republic of China and the Chinese PLA. He served as Chairman of the PRC from 1949 till his death in 1976, and is regarded as one of the most influential and decisive figures in modern world history.
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TAPE 2
T/I: 10:01:55
Combining political ideology with contemporary pragmatism, Chinese
entrepreneurs have been busy repackaging the memory of Communist China's founding father, Chairman Mao Tse Tung. Many Beijing taxis are now adorned with laminated photographs of Mao. The latest offering comes from Mao's grandson, Mao Zinyu who has recorded a tape of songs as a tribute to the late Chairman. Described by Mao Zinyu as folk songs recorded in contemporary style with synthesised music, most of the songs are traditional revolutionary anthems such as The East Is Red, songs which the young Mao's grandfather would have sung with soldiers and peasants. But two -- those entitled Brandishing the Hoe and Grandfather Used To Pass Here -- were composed by the graduate student after a visit to Yanan where the chairman once lived. Mao Zinyu was inspired to write Brandishing The Hoe after seeing a vegetable patch which his grandfather had established.
SHOWS:
SHAOSHAN, CHINA, RECENT
Chinese President Jiang Zemin and other leaders at unveiling of
Mao statue in late leader's home town.
Mao's grandson, Mao Xinyu, at unveiling ceremony.
Statue unveiled by Jiang Zemin.
CU statue.
Leaders and crowd bow three times to statue.
BEIJING, RECENT
New large photo of Mao being prepared.
Photo being placed in Tiananmen Square.
People looking on.
Photo in place on wall in Tiananmen Square.
Display of Mao stamps and coins on sale.
People buying Mao stamps.
MS of Mao medals under glass counter as people look.
CU medals.
GV music shop in arcade.
Shop worker hands cassette of Mao's grandson's music to customer.
CU cassette held by customer.
Display of Mao casettes.
SOT Mao Xinyu, Mao's grandson, saying his grandfather was a modest
man who did not like to boast, but if he was alive he would accept
the love in these songs to him, and he would have liked the
setting of old songs to modern music because it pleased the
masses.
Shop worker putting cassettes on rack.
Grandson singing.
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China - Mao Lives On In Souvenirs
T/I: 11:08:20 FE 10:43:37
Combining political ideology with contemporary pragmatism, Chinese
entrepreneurs have been busy repackaging the memory of Communist China's founding father, Chairman Mao Tse Tung. The latest offering comes from Mao's grandson, Mao Zinyu who has recorded a tape of songs as a tribute to the late Chairman. Described by Mao Zinyu as folk songs recorded in contemporary style with synthesised music, most of the songs are traditional revolutionary anthems such as The East Is Red, songs which the young Mao's grandfather would have sung with soldiers and peasants. But two -- those entitled Brandishing the Hoe and Grandfather Used To Pass Here -- were composed by the graduate student after a visit to Yanan where the chairman once lived. Mao Zinyu was inspired to write Brandishing The Hoe after seeing a vegetable patch which his grandfather had established.
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BEIJING, CHINA, RECENT
0.00 WS women shopping for Mao medallions
0.04 MS of medallions in glass case
0.07 CU Mao medallion
0.10 WS of people queuing to buy Mao souvenir stamps
0.12 Pan up from stamps to buyer
SHAOSHAN, SOUTHERN CHINA, DECEMBER 1993
0.16 Mao statue unveiled at Shaoshan
0.19 Mao Zinyu at unveiling ceremony
BEIJING, RECENT
0.21 Mao Zinyu singing in studio
0.37 MS of cassette in buyer's hands
0.39 CU of cassette
0.42 Buyer looking at cassette
0.46 Doors opening at studio to reveal Mao portrait
0.54 Portrait painter working on scaffolding platform
0.58 CU paint brush
1.00 MS painter at work
1.03 Pullback from portrait in Tiananmen Square to WS of square
1.12 ENDS
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Mao's hometown is booming thanks to tourism
Near Shaoshan - 4 September 2006
1. Wide of tourist group being photographed at house of Mao Zedong
2. Close up on face of tourist
3. Tour guide walking through grounds
4. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) He Hongbo, tour guide:
Here we are at Mao's family home where he spent his childhood. And this pond, called the lotus pond, was where he would swim.
5. Pan from trees to tour group near house
6. Tour guide giving tour
7. Tourists gathered outside house
8. Cardboard cut-out of Mao in front of house
9. Various of stalls selling Mao gift
10. Various of Mao trinkets and gifts
11. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) He Hongbo, tour guide:
If there were no Mao, there would be no Shaoshan tourism. Chairman Mao pushes up our living standards. If there was no Chairman Mao then Shaoshan would still be a small place. Chairman Mao brings change and development to Shaoshan.
Shaoshan - 17 April, 2006
12. Wide of fruit and vegetable market
13. Close up of trader counting money
14. Wide of market
Shaoshan - 4 September, 2006
15. Exterior of Mao memorabilia shop
16. Mao statuettes in entrance to shop
17. Rows of small Mao statuettes on shelves
18. Close up of Mao glass picture in shopkeeper's hand
19. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Luo Qingmei, owner of memorabilia shop :
This is made of glass. It's less expensive and the general public can afford to buy it.
20. Statuette of Mao waving
21. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Luo Qingmei, owner of memorabilia shop :
Once you see this statuette of Chairman Mao, it reminds you of 1949, the liberation of the Chinese people - and brings back that happy feeling when we stood up.
22. Rows of small Mao statuettes
near Shaoshan, Hunan Province - 17 April 2006
23. Various of restaurant owner Tang Ruiren talking with diners
near Shaoshan, Hunan Province - 4 September 2006
24. Reception room and pan to Mao bust
25. View through panel into living quarters and garden
26. Outside corridor with large photo of Mao and Mrs Tang during from Mao's Shaoshan visit in 1959
27. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Tang Ruiren, owner of Mao Family Restaurants:
Now, I've been here 20 years, I have more than 100 restaurants across the country in 20 provinces and 10 cities - we paid 60 (m)million RMB (US$7.5 (m)million) in tax last year.
28. Photographs of Mrs Tang's family and Mao Zedong at altar in her living room
29. Mrs Tang standing next to the altar
30. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Tang Ruiren, owner of Mao Family Restaurants:
Many people stayed there crying. Nobody spoke, there was only crying. People were very sad, more sad than when their parents died. I've lived more than 70 years - I've never seen so many people crying.
31. Photograph taken in 1959 of Tang Ruiren holding her baby near Mao Zedong
LEAD IN:
On 9 September 1976, the Chinese leader, Mao Zedong, died.
Mao had been China's leader for 27 turbulent years since the Communist Party had founded the People's Republic in 1949.
Despite the deaths of (m)millions during Mao's leadership, the Party affords the chairman, as he is known, near god-like status in the country's history.
This is good news for the people of Shaoshan, in Hunan Province, where Mao was raised.
Business is booming in this rural town, and the locals are making a lot of money from the large number of visitors who flock to see the home of their former leader.
STORYLINE:
Another group of visitors have their photos taken in front of the family home of Mao Zedong.
The refurbished farm house in the Hunan province is a must on China's Red tourism trail.
Here tour guides like He Hongbo tell stories of how Mao's family lived, and how the young Mao liked to swim in the lotus pond in front of the house.
On average 9-thousand people visit the house every day.
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Mao Zedong (December 26, 1893 – September 9, 1976), also known as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese communist revolutionary who became the founding father of the People's Republic of China, which he ruled as the Chairman of the Communist Party of China from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976. His theories, military strategies, and political policies are collectively known as Maoism.
Mao was the son of a wealthy farmer in Shaoshan, Hunan. He had a Chinese nationalist and anti-imperialist outlook early in his life, and was particularly influenced by the events of the Xinhai Revolution of 1911 and May Fourth Movement of 1919. He later adopted Marxism–Leninism while working at Peking University, and became a founding member of the Communist Party of China (CPC), leading the Autumn Harvest Uprising in 1927. During the Chinese Civil War between the Kuomintang (KMT) and the CPC, Mao helped to found the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, led the Jiangxi Soviet's radical land policies, and ultimately became head of the CPC during the Long March. Although the CPC temporarily allied with the KMT under the United Front during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945), China's civil war resumed after Japan's surrender and in 1949 Mao's forces defeated the Nationalist government, which withdrew to Taiwan.
On October 1, 1949, Mao proclaimed the foundation of the People's Republic of China (PRC), a single-party state controlled by the CPC. In the following years he solidified his control through land reforms and through a psychological victory in the Korean War, as well as through campaigns against landlords, people he termed counter-revolutionaries, and other perceived enemies of the state. In 1957 he launched a campaign known as the Great Leap Forward that aimed to rapidly transform China's economy from agrarian to industrial. This campaign led to the deadliest famine in history and the deaths of an estimated minimum of 45 million people between 1958 and 1962. In 1966, Mao initiated the Cultural Revolution, a program to remove counter-revolutionary elements in Chinese society which lasted 10 years and was marked by violent class struggle, widespread destruction of cultural artifacts, and an unprecedented elevation of Mao's cult of personality. The program is now officially regarded as a severe setback for the PRC. In 1972, Mao welcomed American President Richard Nixon in Beijing, signalling the start of a policy of opening China to the world. After years of ill health, Mao suffered a series of heart attacks in 1976 and died at the age of 82. He was succeeded as paramount leader by Premier Hua Guofeng, who was quickly sidelined and replaced by Deng Xiaoping.
A controversial figure, Mao is regarded as one of the most important and influential individuals in modern world history. He is also known as a political intellect, theorist, military strategist, poet, and visionary. Supporters credit him with driving imperialism out of China, modernising the nation and building it into a world power, promoting the status of women, improving education and health care, as well as increasing life expectancy as China's population grew from around 550 million to over 900 million under his leadership. Conversely, his regime has been called autocratic and totalitarian, and condemned for bringing about mass repression and destroying religious and cultural artifacts and sites. It was additionally responsible for vast numbers of deaths with estimates ranging from 30 to 70 million victims.
China commemorates 120 birthday of Mao Zedong
Celebrations are being held in China to commemorate the 120th birthday of Mao Zedong, the founder of modern China.
Top leaders including President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang visited the Mao mausoleum in Beijing to pay their respects.
Thousands queued through the night near his childhood home in Shaoshan, Hunan, to see a huge fireworks display which is said to have lasted four hours.
Many more made the pilgrimage to the village to mark the anniversary.
Members of the Politburo Standing Committee including Mr Xi and Mr Li all visited Mao's mausoleum on Tiananmen Square in Beijing.
However, there was no mention of Mao's birthday on the front page of the party's official paper.
Although in a commentary in later pages, the paper praised him as a great patriot and hero, it also carried an editorial piece saying the best commemoration of Mao would be to keep advancing economic reforms that were launched by his successor.
Correspondents say Chinese politicians have to balance their praise of Mao, to whom they owe their political legitimacy, with an appreciation that some of his policies had disastrous consequences.
Millions died during the Great Leap Forward, when Mao's attempts to collectivise farms coincided with a massive drought.
And many intellectuals, older people and middle class people were purged or killed during Cultural Revolution.
Since the start of the reform period in 1978, leaders have paid respect to Mao's achievements but moved away from most of his policies.
Biografía de Mao Zedong
Revolucionario y teórico marxista chino (Shaoshan, 26 de diciembre de 1893 – Pekín, 9 de septiembre de 1976). También conocido por su nombre romanizado Mao Tse-Tung.