Communist Founder Mao Zedong

President Xi Jinping of China will oversee the country's most significant political meeting in five years when he opens the 19th Communist Party Congress in Beijing on October 18 and attempts to tighten his grip on power.

China's ruling Communist Party opens its 19th Congress on October 18, with President Xi Jinping expected to further tighten his grip on power.

Zhao Shunli's transformation takes place several times a week in a simple bedroom filled with Mao Zedong memorabilia, its concrete walls lined with posters portraying the founder of the communist state. Once his army jacket buttons up and his white gloves snap on, Zhao the garbage picker becomes Zhao the People's Liberation Army veteran.

A giant gold-painted statue of China's Communist Party founder Chairman Mao Zedong has been suddenly demolished, apparently for lacking government approval, days after his supporters installed it at a cost of whopping $460,000.

The legacy of Chairman Mao Zedong continues to inspire his supporters four decades after his death, with a giant gold-painted statue of China's Communist Party founder at the cost of a whopping $4.6 lakh.

China today put into circulation a new version of its 100-yuan banknote the highest denomination available in the world's second-largest economy with added golden touches that the government said was harder to forge.

An anchor on China's main state broadcaster, CCTV, apologised on Thursday after a video of him insulting the founder of modern China, Mao Zedong, went viral on social media sites, sparking an investigation by the channel.

China celebrated the 120th birthday of Mao Zedong, the founder of modern China, on Thursday, but with scaled-back festivities as President Xi Jinping embarks on broad economic reforms which have unsettled leftists.

Pilgrims from across the country lit firecrackers and offered flowers in Shaoshan, where Mao was born to celebrate a man widely viewed as the father of modern China.

President Xi Jinping of China will oversee the country's most significant political meeting in five years when he opens the 19th Communist Party Congress in Beijing on October 18 and attempts to tighten his grip on power.

China's ruling Communist Party opens its 19th Congress on October 18, with President Xi Jinping expected to further tighten his grip on power.

Zhao Shunli's transformation takes place several times a week in a simple bedroom filled with Mao Zedong memorabilia, its concrete walls lined with posters portraying the founder of the communist state. Once his army jacket buttons up and his white gloves snap on, Zhao the garbage picker becomes Zhao the People's Liberation Army veteran.

A giant gold-painted statue of China's Communist Party founder Chairman Mao Zedong has been suddenly demolished, apparently for lacking government approval, days after his supporters installed it at a cost of whopping $460,000.

The legacy of Chairman Mao Zedong continues to inspire his supporters four decades after his death, with a giant gold-painted statue of China's Communist Party founder at the cost of a whopping $4.6 lakh.

China today put into circulation a new version of its 100-yuan banknote the highest denomination available in the world's second-largest economy with added golden touches that the government said was harder to forge.

An anchor on China's main state broadcaster, CCTV, apologised on Thursday after a video of him insulting the founder of modern China, Mao Zedong, went viral on social media sites, sparking an investigation by the channel.

China celebrated the 120th birthday of Mao Zedong, the founder of modern China, on Thursday, but with scaled-back festivities as President Xi Jinping embarks on broad economic reforms which have unsettled leftists.

Pilgrims from across the country lit firecrackers and offered flowers in Shaoshan, where Mao was born to celebrate a man widely viewed as the father of modern China.