Video: '1st October 1949: Mao Zedong declares the establishment of the People's Republic of China'

(Saturday, October 1, 1949, 3:00 p.m. China Standard Time) — Mao Zedong proclaimed the founding of the People’s Republic of China, , a single-party state controlled by the Communist Party of China, during a ceremony today in Beijing.

Video: '1949 MAO ZEDONG PROCLAIMED THE ESTABLISHMENT OF NEW CHINA'

Chiang Kai-shek, 600,000 Nationalist troops, and about two million Nationalist-sympathizer refugees retreated to the island of Taiwan.

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