This parade happened to be held after the Lushan meeting when Lin Biao replaced Peng Dehuai as Minister of National Defense and was appointed as the parade Commander, while Yang Yong became the parade director.

In September, 1960, the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, following the principle of building the country through diligence and thrift, reformed the National Day celebration system and decided “to celebrate on a small scale every five years while celebrating on a large scale with military parades every ten years”. Parade provisions appeared for the first time in the PLA Formation Regulations issued by the Ministry of National Defense in 1964. However, guided by left-leaning erroneous ideas, military parades were denounced as formalism, so not only were the National Day military parade cancelled, even internal PLA parades were revoked.