Chapter 526: The Sacred Handover Ceremony
At the end of June, a British Airways 747 charter plane landed at the port city airport carrying a large number of official British representatives, including Prince Char of the royal family.
This heralds the handover ceremony, which will be held tomorrow to meet with the leaders of our country and exchange ideas on the future development of the port city.
Although Ye Chen paid attention to these things, he couldn't exert any strength, and at this moment, his mind was all on this group of teenagers.
This group of teenagers is also in the spotlight tonight, so he has been communicating with everyone with his experience to adjust their emotions.
In terms of communication between the two parties on the handover moment, after several days of coordination and communication, Lieutenant Colonel Vince finally compromised and rehearsed at the pace of the Chinese military, which also made Lieutenant Colonel Vince and Cheng Jianqiang become friends, and talked with each other about the key points of the handover ceremony and the places that need attention.
During the communication and negotiations, the British side once again emphasized the issue of the handover time, but the Party Central Committee has already issued an order that there should be no compromise on time, and the national anthem must be played on the hour, no matter how tough the British side is.
The grand day has finally arrived, and it is drizzling in the port city on this day, and it seems to be crying in the current embrace, and the port city has been waiting for too long on this day.
Ye Chen looked up at the drizzle, hit his forehead, and ran down his cheeks.
On this day, many people in Port City are paying attention to this place, and it has become a place of attention from all over the world.
The world's major media have entered the venue, and there are also many media outside the venue that cannot enter the venue, and there is naturally a lot of news outside the venue, and everything you see today will be news.
Although it was night and there was still a light rain, there were many spectators outside the venue, and they were all very concerned about this moment.
At 11:42 p.m. on June 30, 1997, the handover ceremony of Huaying Port City officially began.
The honor guard of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy, Army and Air Force and the Military Band of the Chinese People's Liberation Army slowly walked into the venue with solemn and neat steps in the astonishment of the people of Hong Kong City.
It was arguably the last concerted step they'd ever seen, and it was an unforgettable scene.
But after the British army's honor guard entered the field from the sidelines, the pace was too different from that of the PLA.
With high morale, a mighty lineup, and neat movements, the honor guard of our army completed the entrance action cleanly and beautifully in accordance with the predetermined time, route and procedure, walked out of the national prestige and military prestige, and won the applause and cheers like a spring tide.
The PLA Military Band then walked into the designated performance venue, and the uniform steps of this group of teenagers shocked everyone, they did not expect that such a big child could actually come out with such a uniform pace.
They are not very old, their bodies are tall, and they have a temperament that ordinary teenagers do not have, and they stand in their place in military uniforms like little military gods.
Time was walking bit by bit with the heart puffing and puffing, Ye Chen was very nervous at the moment, he was holding a baton, wearing an army green military uniform, looking at the children in front of him.
Although he couldn't see the appearance of the national flag being raised, he could read the moment when the five-star red flag fluttered in the eyes of these teenagers in front of him.
As the person in charge of the ceremony announced the official start of the handover ceremony, the baton of Dai Tiancheng and Ye Chen officially moved.
At this moment, Ye Chen's heart was excited, the baton in his hand seemed to weigh a thousand gold, and every swing was as heavy as Mount Tai.
"Get up
People who don't want to be slaves
Take our flesh and blood
Build our new Great Wall
The Chinese nation has arrived
The most dangerous time
Everyone is forced
Let out the last roar"
Listening to the sound of the national anthem of the teenagers, this moment is a moment that will be recorded in history, and this scene will also be resounded all over the world.
It was a long roar of the dragon of the East, which spread to every corner of the world with television stations around the world.
At the same time, when the honor guard of the navy, land and air force waved the baton in the PLA military band, with the national anthem playing, Cheng Jianqiang held the five-star red flag and walked towards the flag-raising place step by step with a solemn and sacred pace.
The command knife they are holding is the Type 92 command knife known as "the first knife in the world", and it is also the treasure of the world that Ye Chen has always wanted to see.
When Cheng Jianqiang handed over the five-star red flag in his hand to the flag-raiser Zhu Tao, the media who participated in the handover ceremony took pictures of this scene.
Zhu Tao has participated in 5,000 training sessions and raised the national flag thousands of times, and with the sound of the sacred national anthem, the five-star red flag and the regional flag of the port city rose at a constant speed.
"Get up
Get up
Get up
We're all in one
Braving enemy fire
advance
Braving enemy fire
advance
advance
Forward"
At 0:46, the national flag rose to the top of the 8.28-meter-high flagpole, and the last note of the national anthem ended at the same time.
The baton in Ye Chen's hand was also slowly put down, Ye Chen was excited at this moment, the task was finally over, and the port city returned to the embrace of the motherland.
But what Ye Chen didn't know at this moment was that the flag of the British Empire was lowered 12 seconds earlier, and the rhythm was not uniform.
Many people outside the venue looked at the big screen and saw the national anthem played, and at the moment when the five-star red flag was raised, they were excited and shed tears.
The drizzle in the sky is still falling, and this scene has merged into a picture worth remembering.
"Gangcheng, you are finally back, the embrace of the motherland has been waiting for you for a long time, I have looked forward to your return many times, close at hand but far away in the world, today, this grand and sacred moment, I feel proud of your home."
"It's finally back!"
"Hong Kong City, your bright pearl, is finally not lonely, the children of China are looking forward to your return, at this moment, you will become a different pearl of the East."
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The five-star red flag has been hanging high above the port city of the Pearl of the Orient since then, every descendant of Yan and Huang has raised their eyebrows at this moment, the port city has always been the heart disease of the motherland, and finally the merit is completed at this moment, and he is also interpreting the motherland in the gradual growth on the other hand.
With the fierce applause, as well as the handover dialogue between the leaders of the two countries, as well as the planning for the future of the port city, and after all the negotiations were over, the handover ceremony between the two countries officially ended.
Ye Chen and the others walked out of the venue again with a uniform pace, listening to the sound of cheers outside the venue, Ye Chen looked ahead with a smile.