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BEIJING, July 2 (Xinhua) -- Passionate musical movements paid tribute to a glorious journey, while resounding songs echoed the people's epic. A concert titled "Putting the People First" was held in Beijing on Monday evening to celebrate the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China (CPC). Party and state leaders Xi Jinping, Li Qiang, Zhao Leji, Wang Huning, Cai Qi, Ding Xuexiang, Li Xi, and Han Zheng watched the performance along with about 3,000 others in joint celebration of such a glorious festival.

The Great Hall of the People was brightly lit and radiant with festivity. At 07:55 p.m., Xi and other Party and state leaders arrived at the site of the concert, where rapturous applause erupted.

"Sing a folk song for the Party to hear, I'd liken the Party to my mother..." Accompanied by the clear, bright voices of a children's choir, the concert was unveiled in style. The performances featured five movements, as artists, through their virtuosic playing and moving vocals, expressed boundless love for the Party and sang out the strong message of national rejuvenation in this era.

With its majestic strains, "Ode to the Red Flag" featured a rhythm that evoked resonant patriotic sentiments among the audience, while the orchestral piece "To Our Predecessors" expressed deep remembrance and profound respect for revolutionary martyrs. Songs such as "Red Azalea," "When Osmanthus Flowers Blossom in Eighth Lunar Month," "Ode to the Yellow River," and "The Sky above the Liberated Area" revisited the grand scenes of unity and solidarity between the military and the people during the revolutionary war years, conveying the will and elation of hundreds of millions of people in following the Party's leadership and embracing a new life.

"Colorful Homeland," a series of orchestral and choral performances comprising "Whipping Horses for Busy Grain Delivery," "By the Butterfly Spring," "The Clothes-Washing Song," "Spring Comes to the Fields," "Oil for My Motherland," and "Sunshine on Tashkurgan," depicted the vibrant scenes of vigorous development across all sectors, as well as the dynamic picture of officials and people of all ethnic groups jointly building the homeland during the periods of socialist revolution and construction. "On the Fields of Hope," orchestral and choral performances of classic songs, reflected the rapid and delightful transformation across China since the country's reform and opening-up, telling of the Chinese people's heartfelt wishes as they work together to fulfill their shared dream.

As a dedication to the 105 years of standing together through thick and thin and striving forward hand in hand, the entire concert was soul-stirring, marked by successive waves of uplifting, magnificent performances. The orchestral pieces "Merry Songs of Mountains and Rivers" and "Hearts Beat as One" showcased the daily thriving vitality of the new era toward prosperity, while the symphonic chorus "Full Attachments to Mountains and Rivers" conveyed profound sentiments of family and nation through delicate melodies. The orchestral piece "Never Let the People Down" brought the atmosphere to a climax with its magnificent momentum. The concert concluded with the whole audience joining in a forceful chorus of "Without the Communist Party, There Would Be No New China."

Members of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, members of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee, vice chairperson of the Central Military Commission, vice chairpersons of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, state councilors, the president of the Supreme People's Court, the procurator-general of the Supreme People's Procuratorate, and vice chairpersons of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference in Beijing attended the concert.

Also in attendance were leading officials from central Party and government departments, the military, people's organizations, and the Beijing municipal government; leaders of the central committees of non-Communist parties and the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce, and representatives of personages without party affiliation; representatives of recipients of national medals and honorary titles, veteran Party members and retired cadres, foreign experts working in China, grassroots Party members and people from all walks of life in the capital, and those of military personnel stationed in the capital.