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The Mausoleum of Mao Zedong (zh-sp |s=毛主席纪念堂|p=M??o Zhŭx?? J??ni??nt??ng) is the last resting place of Mao Zedong, Chairman of the Politburo of the Communist Party of China|Politburo of the Communist Party of China from 1943 and the chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China from 1945 until his death. This highly popular attraction is located in the middle of Tiananmen Square, in Beijing the capital of China. The remains of the Great Helmsman, as he is sometimes known, are embalmed and on display for public. People queue up for hundreds of meters every day to see the former chairman, many paying tribute to him with flowers that can be rented at the entrance on the north side. There is a souvenir shop at the exit on the south side. The mausoleum was built right after Mao's death (September 9, 1976). The groundbreaking ceremony took place November 24, 1976, and the mausoleum was completed on May 24, 1977. According to China Pictorial, Issue 9, 1977, people throughout China designed and built the mausoleum. Material from all over China was used for the construction: granite from Sichuan Province, porcelain plates from Guangdong Province, pine trees from Yan'an, Shaanxi Province, saw-wort seeds from the Tian Shan Mountains in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region, earth from from Tangshan earthquake| the quake-stricken Tangshan, color pebbles from Nanjing, milky quartz from the Kunlun Mountains, pine logs frim Jiangxi Province, and rock samples from Mount Everest. Water and sand from the Taiwan Straits were also used to symbolically emphasize the People's Republic of China's claims over Taiwan. 700,000 people from different provinces, autonomous regions, and nationalities did symbolic voluntary labor. Hua Guofeng, who supervised the mausoleum's project, has his handwritting on the mausoleum's sign.
China-stub Category:Chinese Mausoleums Category:Beijing This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Mausoleum of Mao Zedong".
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