Timeline: Seven decades of Communist China


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  • Wednesday, 25 Sep 2019

A woman pushes a trolley with a child past exhibits showing the 2015 military parade marking the 70th anniversary of the end of World War Two presided by Chinese President Xi Jinping, at an exhibition on China's achievements ahead of the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China (PRC) at the Beijing Exhibition Center, in Beijing, China September 24, 2019. REUTERS/Jason Lee

(Reuters) - China will celebrate the 70th anniversary of Communist Party rule on Oct. 1 with flowers, speeches, performances and a massive military parade through central Beijing.

The 70 years since the end of the civil war, in which Communists and Nationalists, or Kuomintang, fought to control territory vacated by the invading Japanese, have been tumultuous.

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