Visitors to the Museum of the Chinese Revolution will soon be able to hear the voices of late leaders Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping and the voice of Jiang Zemin by picking up an electronic narrator and listening to recordings.
Since May 20, staff at the museum, in downtown Beijing, have been busy preparing for a grand exhibition to mark the 80th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China (CPC), which falls on July 1.
The show is sponsored by Eight central departments including the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee sponsor the show; with the help a large group of experts, scholars and officials from other departments concerned, said Xia Yanyue, manager of the museum.
The exhibition, with an area of 5,000 sq m, will require the visitors to walk 1.5 km to cover all of it, Xia said. The show features over 1,300 graphic exhibits and over 400 historic relics of the CPC-led revolution.
(People's Daily 06/18/2001)
