More than 900,000 Beijing residents have visited a photo exhibition marking the 80th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China (CPC), statistics with the organizing committee said.

Visitors have kept swarming into the China Revolutionary Museum, east of Tiananmen Square, since the "Shouldering People's Hopes" exhibition opened on June 20. The museum reports 30,000 arrivals daily.

The exhibition, showing CPC's history, includes three parts: from the early 1900s to the year 1949 when CPC members dedicated themselves to national independence, and the people's liberation from 1949 to 1976 when Chinese people were looking for a socialist route after the birth of New China; from the late 1970s to the present during which China chose the reform and opening-up drive and is building a socialist market economy with Chinese characteristics.

The number of visitors set a record on the opening day, CPC's birthday July 1 and July 13, when China won the 2008 Olympics bid, said the organizing committee.

Organizers include the CPC Central Committee's Organization Department, the CPC Central Committee's Publicity Department and the Ministry of Culture.

They expect to receive over 1 million visitors.

(People's Daily 07/17/2001)