As well as feeling ill, I’m missing the fireworks. It’s the PRC’s National Day today. We get a day off here in HK, they get about a week in China.

In 1949, the First Plenum of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) was held in Beijing. It elected a Central People’s Government Council, with Mao Zedong as Chairman, and appointed Zhou Enlai Premier of the Government Administration Council and concurrently Minister of Foreign Affairs. On October 1, 1949, a grand ceremony inaugurating the People’s Republic of China was witnessed by 300,000 people in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square.

So missing out on the chance to add to my firework photos. I can hear them though.