The general public visited the tombs of seventy-two martyrs at Huanghuagang.
On March 29, the commemoration of the 100th anniversary of 72 martyrs at Huanghuagang, participated by people from all walks of life in Guangzhou City, as well as other places in Guangdong Province. It was , was held in front of the 72 martyrs' mausoleums in Huanghuagang Park. About 600 people attended the commemoration, including such leaders as Huang Longyun, chairman of the Guangdong Provincial People's Political Consultative Conference; Bian Jinping, vice director of Cultural and Historical Data and Learning Committee of the CPPCC; Tang Bingquan, vice chairman of the provincial CPPCC; Lin Yuanhe, chairman of the Guangzhou Municipal People's Political Consultative Conference, etc.
and family members of people from all walks of life in Guangzhou City and other places in Guangdong Province; as well as family members of the later generations of the Revolution of 1911. Lin Yuanhe presided over the memorial ceremony.
The Revolution of 1911, called "a great bourgeois-democratic revolution in Chinese history by the Communist Party of China, overthrew the feudal imperial system the Qing government and the old China had been practicing for more than two thousand years; and founded the Republic of China--the first democratic republic in Asia.(Translated by Guangzhou Association of Foreign Affairs Translators)
