1949年10月1日下午3点钟,北京天安门广场30万人,隆重举行了新中国开国大典。在这前一天,毛泽东主席率领中国人民政治协商会议的代表在天安门广场举行了人民英雄纪念碑奠基典礼。从此,天安门广场成为新中国首都的中心。开国当天,毛泽东、周恩来对彭真讲:要把天安门广场改建成为人民喜爱的地方。毛泽东还讲:新中国人口众多,要把天安门广场修建成为规模宏大的广场。 At 3 o’clock on the afternoon of October 1, 1949, 300,000 people in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square held a grand ceremony marking the founding of new China. On the day before, the Chairman Mao Zedong led the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference representatives held a groundbreaking ceremony of the People’s Heroes Monument in Tiananmen Square. Since then, Tiananmen Square became the center of the new Chinese capital. On the founding day, Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai told Peng Zhen: It is necessary to transform Tiananmen Square into a place loved by the people. Mao Zedong also said: With a large population in New China, it is necessary to construct Tiananmen Square into a large-scale square.