I would be ashames and embarrassed to called a Chinese Canadian or African Canadian, or anything else/Canadian. I am a Canadian. No slash in front of Canadian. If I wanted to be a Chinese Canadian, I would have stayed in China.

China is a great place (with outstanding food!) I will actually be in mainland China (Zhongshan) on Oct 1st and it will be an honour for me to be here for the PRC's 60th anniversary.

I'm going to light a candle for Tibet and the many citizens of that ancient country whose lives or livelihoods have been trampled by ongoing, widely documented abuses perpetrated by the Chinese government.

Canadians need to celebrate The People's Republic of China's anniversary?

No quams if you do. No quams if you don't.

Long live friendship between Canada and China.

Chinese culture and language is often lost to the 2nd generation Chinese Canadians.

Most Canadian-born-Chinese (CBCs) are probably unaware of this event.

if you want to support human right, then do not buy anything from any contry that are under dictatorship(include china of course). And, lets see how is your living standard after a year.

I am not saying communism is good, but a sharp transform will be a revolouion. And rarely any revolution that does not involve blood. I am sure no one will want to see China in chaos, because both the west and China are economically dependent on each other. However, I would like to see China slowly evolve from dictatorship into democratic.

I believe the astonished progress and achievement by China in terms of economic power and personal liberty should be recognized by all rather than twisted in a very competitive 21 century.

There is room for further progress in all respects including human right. The full potential of China will be fully taped and demonstrated in this century!

I'm proud of being a Chinese Canadian.

China is getting stronger and more powerful in the world whatever you say about the party.

No one government is perfect I believe that they are better than anyone else.

I'm ethnic Chinese but I'm proud to be French Canadian. I'm not excited about the 60th anniversary but I can say that it is a leap forward compared to the old day under Mao Zedong ruled.

I just wish that soon or later that China will become a democratic country to not only improve the freedom of speech, etc.. but also the image of China to show the world that they are evolving and ready for a change.

Happy Anniversary China.
To celebrate I'm gonna run over some hippies in a tank, chain some kids up in my basement to make me shoes and Torture the first person to disagree with me.

Maybe have some dim sum too.

W00t party.

I will go and eat some at my favorite Chinese restaurant in the city, Maple Yip. Mmm Mai Cai Kou Rou sher hen hao!

Re: Anonymous' post on September 29, 2009 02:22 PM

(1)
If you don't buy Chinese goods because of Chinese Communist Government's human right record, I apprepiate your effort. I simply don't do this because it doesn't harm the government, but do harm the people a lot.

People from Mainland China always mix the following concepts together: Chinese People, Chinese Nation, Chinese Government, and Chinese Communist Party. Such education (and many other effort by the Chinese Government, including simplifying Chinese Characters) is simply a way to manipulate Chinese. As a result, one who challenges Chinese government's policy can easily "defined" as "not loving China", even "high treason".

That's why you see a lot of Chinese (and Chinese Canadians) saying "I love China." My question to them is: in what perspective, the nation, the people, or the dictatorship?

(2)
No doubt, "rarely any revolution that does not involve blood." This is my another question: is that right?

I guess the suicide bombers in Afghanistan or Iraq believe the same thing you do, so did the "Red Guards" during the Cultural Revolution. However, other than killing lots of innocent civilians (and a handful of real enemies), I don't see their lives are being improved.

Surely, gradually improve the government into a democratic one is the best. However, 2,000 years is too long, let alone the fact that the Communist Government of China doesn't seems to have a will to do the improvement, but simply catches all the decedents into jail or force them into exile, and accuse them to be criminals at the same time, just like the "Red Guards" did.

(3)
Go back to your first permise: "if you want to support human right, then do not buy anything from any contry that are under dictatorship(include china of course). And, lets see how is your living standard after a year."

Are you threatening us to have a desperate and terrible lives if we don't fall onto our knees before the Communist China?

Let me tell you one thing straight: I AM a Chinese, and I CHOOSE to live in Canada; this is enough to be a political statement, and I think such statement is strong enough. Surely I am not a hero, but at least I dare to make this statement with my real name.

Do you, Mr./Ms. Anonymous?

(For the economic side of this question, I think this video is enough to reply: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EvYaUGpo-U)

Oct 1st, let's use this occation to Commemorate 80 million Chinese been killed by the Communist Party of China during it's 60 years of ruling. Yes, the red flag is indeed painted in blood, 80 million murder victims' blood.

Let's not forget, the killing is still going on in China.

I am not from a Chinese background, but love the Chinese culture. I visited the country and many of my friends are Chinese.

I think the PRC'60th anniversary is a good opportunity for non-Chinese Canadians to open themselves to this beautiful culture and wonderful people.

I hope that the media coverage won't be as negative as it usually is towards China. Before pointing at another country's inequalities, we should first look around us and analyze the social problems of our own country.

The People's Republic has a lot to celebrate. It is the first government since the Opium War (1840) to drive out the foreign invaders.

Its military fought a foreign power to standstill (instead of losing) for the first time (Korean War, against UN troops)since the Opium War. Its per capita income rises first the first time since the Opium War. And its people are united (considering its size, and despite the ethnic tension in the past two years, ethnic Tibetans and Uighurs only made up of 1% of the total population).

Of course, there are bumps and bruises, but they learn from their experience (nonstop learning for the past 2200 years as a single political entity)

And most importantly, Chinese in China are optimistic about their lives, and Chinese outside of China feel proud.

So, the birthday is worth celebrating.

I am proud to be of Chinese heritage but I reject being considered part of the PRC. The Chinese government is one of the most corrupt in recent times and I will not celebrate 60 years of the PRC but rather count down the end of the Communist-led China.

I am a Chinese-Canadian. Regarding 60th anniversary of P.R.China, I am not that happy. What I think is, after 60 years Communist Party takes the power, no Chinese have ever made an free election for the nation and no people is allowed to speak out the disadvantages of the government and the party,like serious corruption, cheating, and unfairness,etc.

Were these the results Chinese people want from the new party and the new government in 1949, absolutely not. But what Chinese people can do, in face of life threatening from the party and the government, recall TianAnMen square in summer of 1989, that's the answer.

I hate The communist party. No offense to the chinese people, but if I were you, I would stand up for them. You have the best advantage and instead of letting that be used by the communist party, take advantage of it.

I can't wait til the Cultural Revival, the real "Liberation" of China and only until then, I think, Taiwan will want with consent to reunite with China.

The Communist Party in China has killed 70-80 million of its own citizens over the past 60 years to maintain its power.

It still has a comprehensive Marxist-Leninist political structure and state police system that has essentially wiped out all dissident since the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre, through immediate placement in slave labour camps without trial.

CBC can keep glorifying this regime all it wants, but sooner or later the Chinese people will have their say. Over the past 5 years their has been a movement to quit the Communist Party of China and its affiliated organizations (youth league, young pioneers), and the movement has reached over 60 million. Still hundreds of millions to go.

That's what we should be celebrating.

Too many Chinese in Canada still hold on to the facade of the "New China". The fact is, without the Communist Party, China would have developed much faster and would be decades ahead of where it is, like what we see in Hong Kong or Taiwan. The majority of Chinese people still believe that the Communist Party and China are one and the same and that criticizing the Communist Party is criticizing their country.

The Communist Party is not China. Here's hoping that the Communist Party won't be around for a 70th anniversary, and that in the near future, the Chinese people will bring China's historical magnificence to the world stage without political coloring.

CBC, what do you mean by saying that "Canada's multi-faceted Chinese community is divided on the anniversary and its significance"?

Chinese community is not divided on the anniversary. In fact, they are looking forward to the celebration of the founding PRC.

CBC, you have done enough damage of yourself among Chinese communities. With the current situation going on, CBC is bashing China.

I would definitely defend for China and be Chinese first and then Canadian.

We must know more about the truth of China before we say something about the people or the government. We would never know how difficult it is to administer such a big country with such a large population. We should our respects to them.

Although I am not Chinese I have to say, China has developed a WHOLE lot from the last time I been to Beijing(1999). I went again during the Summer Olympics and DAMN, Beijing has transformed into a loving, caring city!

The Beijing International Airport is rated the best in the world and how could anyone not like Chinese food??? China is the next superpower!

Those who still regard China as a communist country are totally ignorant
of today's development in China, unfortunately even some CBC journalists share the same point of view.

In 1978 when I was visiting my relatives in countryside of Northeast China,I was stopped by a 60 years old local farmer. He said to me he heard ( people usually prefer heard not thought at that time )that Deng Xiao Ping is leading the country to capitalism but not allow people to talk about it.I told him that was not true. How idiot I was! When I look back and read today's China I found he is absolutely right.For the past 20-30 years China is develop its country from the capitalism not communism. If the economic is capitalism how could you say the country is communist.

Chinese Communist Party has been doing much better job than any other political parties in Canada, US, England, France, India or any other so-called democratic countries.

1. There economical achievements are excellent. In 80s and 90s, most of the western pundits called Chinese economic growth was a ‘bubble’. But today we know it wasn’t the case and its growth is not even near the peak. No one can simply hide it behind the ‘cheap labour’ too, because it is more than that. (Hope they clean the air and water soon)

2. There defence achievements are excellent. Chinese citizen don’t have to worry about another country conquering them again or dropping bombs in there cities to do a periodical regime-change.

3. There educational system is excellent and affordable for the citizen. It fact it produces more than enough to support continuing innovations.

4. There public services are excellent. Just compare Katrina to Sichuan earthquake relief efforts.

5. They protect their innovations. Compare it to what happened to Avro Arrow, Nortel networks etc.

6. There long-term investments are excellent. Three gorges dam, the bridge on Shanghai-to-Ningbo highway (more than 30 km long) are some examples. Just about 50 years ago, they had asked USSR to build their first bridge across Yangtze in Wuhan. USSR abandoned their support in building the second bridge in Nanjing, so CCP had to do it without any foreign help.

In Toronto on the other hand, we are talking about bringing down the Gardiner Expressway because we couldn’t handle about 10 km of elevated highway (open-up the condo-front please).

What else you expect from your political parties, bringing down the government, chopping down GST?

Like most of the other superpowers, China too built from scratch (once again!).

As a Chinese Canadian, even I lived in Canada for more than 6 years, I still pay a great attention to what is happening in China.

Like most of Chinese in China now, I am very exciting about China's 60th birthday. It is unbelievable that China--the biggest in population, the third in land, and the only big one of communist country in the world, survived for 60 years.

Now, she looks living better and better compared with some other countries which used to misunderstand, even hate her.

Huge agree Difan!
Happy the PRC's 60th anniversary.
I am proud of being a Chinese.
I am proud of being a Chinese.
I am proud of being a Chinese.
I am proud of being a Chinese.

I am an ethnic Chinese born in Canada. The 60th anniversary of the People's Republic of China is a great occasion to celebrate the achievements of her people over the last few decades, both economically and socially.

While many experts speculate that the political sphere will gradually emancipate itself overtime, I for one do not see the light of that day.

Chinese have long being influenced by the teachings of Confucius, one of which is the so-called harmonious society. For many Chinese, debate is nothing short of non-existent when a given problem arises. We would prefer to build towards a consensus (or maintain silence) rather than divert from the general opinion. We do not want to bother in any way.

In short, if one member of the collective has a problem, then the entire collective has a problem. That is why democracy is something that is far-fetched at this point in time in a traditionalist society such as China.

Despite all of its imperfections, the government of China has done a very good job in the past 60 years..
For you diehard critics, do you think it is easy to govern, feed, shelter, and cloth 1.322 billion people of China ?

Remember, the population of China (1322 mn) is greater than the total population of the G8 plus a few other countries:

G8:
United States (301 mn)
Russia (141 mn)
Japan (127 mn)
Germany ( 82 mn)
France (61 mn)
United Kingdom (61 mn)
Italy (58 mn)
Canada (33 mn)

Plus:
Spain (41 mn)
Poland (39 mn)
Ukraine (46 mn)
Romania (22 mn)
Portugal (11 mn)

I am proud to be Chinese by birth, but I am more thankful that I am Canadian by choice.

Sixty years of corruption and tyranny aren’t worth observing. I rather celebrate the end of the CCP instead.

I am an open-minded Chinese Canadian.

For most people who has the Chinese ethnic root, the 60th anniversary of the R.P. China is more like a religious ceremony or a dazzling party which would reflect their ethnic characteristics to all around the world.

It has been struggling to show their real soul to this mosaic society from any kind of culture root if the culture would consider the meditation an ultimate spiritual power!

Chinese culture is just one among them and would always find herself embarrassed especially in those situations such as funky parties or masquerade. But Chinese Canadian won't ruin your religious ceremonies or parties in any churches or from other communities even sometimes Chinese Canadian don't agree with all the values embedded in some social events. Why? Because the conventional Chinese philosophy highly advocate the balance of "Ying & Yang" or the harmonious "Qi" in all kinds of situations. Most of Chinese Canadian even don't bother themselves to participate any political shows on this free, peaceful and colorful land even they are titled to have the right!

It's the carnival-alike party time for Chinese who are living in China tomorrow, no matter what other countries call it. If you are an person with wisdom, please respect other nations' religious ceremony and parties. So do they afterward!

China wasted too much energy,time and money to do this kind of celebration.

Pls remember,there are lots of Chinese still in poverty. Do more things for them.

Don't only think of yourself,Dear Bureaucrats.

Happy 60th to China.

The communist model of government is just what China needed to move into the 20th century.

I'm sure they will find their own path in the 21 century, hopefully with an improved form of government than they presently have and hopfully better than we have for that mater.

I'm a proud Chinese Canadian everyday of the year, especially on the 60th birthday of PRC. If some people want to neglict the Chinese in front of the Canadian, then go rigth ahead, but also tell those English/French/Irish Canadians as well, so ur saying they should be staying in England, France??? don't be so bitter...

Are we really "celebrating" the birthday of a totalitarian regime? Would we have been doing the same in, say, 1996 when Nazi Germany turned 60, had it made it out of infancy?

China is a wonderful civilization with many contributions to laud, but the 60th anniversary of its nasty little revolution isn't one of them.

It is a great day for China! For those who have visited China, they have seen in their eyes the incredible transformation taken place in China.

China has put all the grief behind and leaped forward. Whether you like or not, this century will be China’s century.
Happy Birthday!

If China was anything like Tibet in the 1920's where 30,000 individuals controlled many millions with terror and starvation then it is indeed a time to celebrate the freedoms gained under the revolutionary government.

Being a racially Chinese with British & Canadian citizenship and deemed Chinese resident, I love China as a country, minus the regime.

Under the regime, there is no human right, citizens lack ethics (poison food) and manners (spitting and talking aloud), bribery is common place. These are just tip of an iceberg.

I will not celebrate 60th anniversary of PRC

Northing has been done? China has best infrastructures in the world. Its freeway is the newest and second-longest on earth. More than 100 new, big and modern cities have been established during recent years. According to report, China has advanced to the 29th place of the most competitive countries in the world ( Canada is 10th).

China foreign reserve has reached 2.2 trillions and Chinese people become richer and happier. 60 million Chinese citizens travel around the world becoming the largest source of tourists in the world. The modernization in China will be accelerated!

Happy Birthday!

Hey hey, Happy B'day China and Chinese people.

Well for sure I will watch the celebrations and parade, love to see the PLA women soldiers in their hot mini skirt uniforms.

Glad to know that those Chinese here that don't like China are staying home, hate for them to teach their garbage in China.

Some day when China allows the Chinese people to vote, I hope they would vote for a Chinese leader that has the guts like those great past American presidents, the Truemans, the JFKs and the GW Bushs.

I remember 10 years ago being in the march as a high school student...we were trained for months, day and nights, under the sun...it's like military: where you had to stand for hours without fainting. My school was considered the best in beijing thus we were located in the centre on Oct 1st, 09.

Oh, that great day with 10,000 students working on the tiananmen square...

It's the Chinese Communist Party's obsession to equate itself (the fascist totalitarian ruling party) with China (the country), so they can label anything unfriendly to the brutal regime as "anti-China." Sad to see this has worked so well.

They are also deeply insecure about their illegitimacy and are constantly trying to present itself as the "sole legitimate government of China" (a lie repeated a thousand times...) But hay let's call a spade a spade. A regime that mass murders its own people (80 million by some counts, likely higher more) has long lost any legitimacy whatsoever. It's only using force and deception to maintain its hold on absolute power.

China and the rest of the world would be so much better off when the mass-murdering CCP is removed from power.

L.

PS. China has existed for several thousand years, that's way longer than the 60 that the CCP is celebrating. And it'll be there (for the better) long after the CCP is gone.

Today is a great day. All of the Chinese in cluding Chinese abroad will celebrate the splendent 60 anniversary . Hope my country will be more and more strong! In the last 60 years, she did have done a lot of arduous job to make people enjoy their lives.

Happy birthday!

Commendations to the 60th Anniversary of the People's Republic of China!

Difan is right on the money. Rare good sense in all the rhetoric about China and the Communists!

In a perfect world China would have instantly morphed into a prosperous democracy 60 years ago and never had any worry about overpopulation or potential famine. If you think that that was ever a possible or even remotely probable outcome you are hopelessly naive.

For all their crimes, the Communists faced difficult challenges and achieved significant successes. Difan is right - this is not just for China but for the whole world. In the world in which we actually live they did about as well as anyone has any right to suspect, and that is why they enjoy some significant and real public support.

So, I will quietly celebrate on Oct. 1 and say a prayer for China's continued health and prosperity. China still has a hard road ahead and I hope that it takes them to a good place.

This whole facade is put on display again by the CBC and other Western media.

The bottom line is that the Chinese people and Chinese Canadians/Americans should be entitled to celebrate whatever they want to celebrate. There is no reason to be apologetic or to pledge one's allegiance to Canada or whatever.

Have you ever seen Jewish Americans/Canadians compelled to condemn what Israel has done to the Palestinians and denounce their Israeli cultural roots? No. Never. Why is it always the Chinese who have to prove their loyalty to Canada? Because they are Chinese?

The long history of ethnocentricism and racial discrimination, especially against the Chinese Canadians indeed have taken root in Canadian consciousness. Give us a break. Indeed, we see a number self-claimed Chinese Canadians eager to prove that they are not really Chinese, or I should perhaps say, they want to prove that they are more Canadians than the white Canadians, of course by condemning China and the Chinese.

I was born in China and now working in Canada. I was surprised to see so many Chinese-Canadians apparently compelled to pledge their allegiance toward Canada. I was even more surprised to see so many idiotic comments from those who took advantage of this occasion to spread their stereotypes of China and the Chinese in the disguise of criticizing the "Chinese Government" and in the name of human rights and Tibet and so on.

There are a lot of serious problems with the policies and governance of the current Chinese Government, but I would bet that even there is a totally new Chinese government in place, the same Western China-bashers would never stop attacking China, unless China becomes a Western or Canadian colony.

The point is that most of the hostilities toward China (for that reason, any other non-Western country) were derived from the China-bashers Orientalist bias and their still deeply-rooted imperialist fantasy to force another culture and civilization to become a copy of the Western empires themselves. That's why you see much less Canadian/Western criticism of India (a former colony of Britain) or Saudi Arabia (a contemporary underdog of Western imperialism), even though these countries have had the same or even worse track records in social/gender equality or human rights.

Once Tibet is free and independent again - then maybe Chinese-Canadians should be celebrating their 60th. Until then however, it hangs like a black cloud above any sort of celebration. This is only one mans opinion however, and i'm sure many will celebrate none-the-less.

I'm very proud to be Chinese but not proud of Communism is still in China.

I am a chinese person, proud of it, and not about to take some crap from people who lash out at china. I'm sure that the 60th anniversary is very important to the people republic of china.

I, personally, don't take this as a super important event, but some people do. I would wish for the people to trash talk, to think and put themselves into another's person's shoes and think about something other than themselves.

We are all individuals, no matter what race, and human. Take the Me out of We.

I turned off my tv and light a cigarette when I heard the sentence "long live our greatest country. long live our greatest party. long live our greatest people." said by the chairman of China.

I can not either be sure how many of you had seen the words which elemented by the people who were sitting down the Tian'an square.

"Give allegiance to our party. Love our people".
They always put the the world "party" above the people. Obviously, they do work as that way too. When will they be realized that, it is the people who created this country, and it is also the people who gave a breathing chance to this party.

If any amy worldwide which obey the party instead of their people. What a tragedy it is for this nation and his people.

Look at the amy which were shown on tv. If we had a tiny bit chance twenty years ago(1989). Can we be still fell it now?

Happy Birthday to my dear motherland - China!(60th anniversary of the People's Republic of China)
I'm really proud of being a Chinese!!!
The new China is getting stronger and stronger due to the hard work of many Chinese people and the Communist Party.
China will definitely make more great progress in the new future.
Love you forever, my China!
Those who said unfriendly words to China and the Communist Party should be more polite and objective.
Everyone can see the great changes in China and how fast it developed.
Tomorrow will be better and better!
I'm watching on line live now, it is awesome, Beijing is very beautiful, much much better than here.The 60th celebration is amazing.
I love you - China!
All the best !

Chinese government is probably one of the most efficient governments in the world right now, and we should all congratulate the chinese people for establishing a peaceful and prosperous nation for the greater good.

One might argue that Chinese communist party doesn't offer basic human freedom, such as the right of speech and the right of vote. But look what the right of vote brought to the democratic world. All we ever got is some dude like mr. harper, or mr. bush who would match your basic uselessness and very unefficient.

What China do that democratic countries don't, such that if your house got destroyed by a hurricane, the government of China rebuilds it for you for free. If you live in Canada or any demcratic country, if you don't have insurance, screw you...

About the freedom of speech, you people voted your baisc idiot, then you just call him an idiot, here is your freedom of speech.

For anyone doubting the chinese culture, here's an idea, canada doesn't even have a culture, or some might call that some "culture"... what a laugh, just basic poeple hanging around laughing and drinking beer all day, maybe this is a reason why we should wonder why canada gets any development at all.

I, personally, absolutely believe China will become the top power in the world, I really dearly wish that, we might get some more peace in the world, unlike the recent U.S spreading their lies around the globe.

Lets not turn this into a China bashing fest again. This is the celebration of the 60th anniversary of New China. During the last 200 years Chinese people have been oppressed by many many different countries. 200 years ago Chinese people were seen as nothing and used as slaves in North America.

It is a feat in itself that the Chinese are at the social status that they are at today.

Thats what we're celebrating. Not the Communist Party, who mark my words, even native Chinese people bash, but the culture that has come this far.

I am a Chinese-Canadian, and I'm proud to be Chinese-Canadian.

While I respect what one of the people previous said about simply wanting to be called Canadian, It would feel for me a rejection of my heritage if I did not identify myself as Chinese Canadian.

Ive read some others comments here and must say that these 'pro democracy' people are slightly naive of what democracy is and what it required to run one. firstly all people can agree that it requires an educated and informed populace, which China is more than a little lacking, although it is getting better through education reforms.

China would have a hard time operating as a democracy at this point, all the rich and informed people would merely take control of the country and run it as a private business, exploiting the poor and uneducated.

I know Chinese politics are very corrupt, Ive lived there for more than 5 years I know how things work there, the corruption stems from a cultural practice called guanxi, it matters more who you know than what your capable of and people stick together and help out thier friends often by stepping on others.

the police are run more like a state mafia who extort money from business's that are illegal under chinese law, but are allowed to operate as long as you pay your dues to the local police.

such problems are recognized by the CCP and they are trying to crack down on these practices by making the punishment for corruption of a public official death, but no one wants to tell on anyone else for fear of their shady practices coming to light.

i think if anything china needs the iron fist to force change, or else it would become even worse.

also, free tibet? and then what? most of the people there are now Han chinese, what would you do with them? the dali lama is a fuedal theocrat, would you like it to return to a fuedal theocracy?

if anything china is creating infrastructure to help the country develop, i agree the development isnt even and the Han that live there are benefiting more, but i think that is also because the tibetans wouldnt do it themselves and arent, they are trying to maintain an old lifestyle that cant create wealth for themselves.

I am sick of idealistic hippies chanting free tibet, i dont think you have put much real thought into the matter and see the dali lama as a cuddly teddy bear who says nice things. but i dont think he has the capability nor the right to run a country, remember he wasnt elected he was born to be the lord and master and thats not democracy either. imagine if the vatican still ruled us all, would you like that?

by the way im not chinese nor am i a marxist/moaist communist.

I don't want to comment on the chinese government. But I really want to say that in the last 100 years many ordinary people have tried a lot to make our country better.

I think this is the most important thing. No matter which government we have, we are all Chinese and we live in the same country.

Being a tibetan, i have no objection over the (Han) chinese people being proud of today. But if this day is used to gag and turn deaf ear to the grievances of China's minorities, the majority Han chinese people would do well to stop and think if their prosperity is coming at the cost of the happiness of the minorities.

I have lived in Canada for over 20 years but that doesn't change my love for my mother country. No one can ignore the greatest achievement that China has made over the past 60 years.

It has gone through some turmoils but it managed to thrive and successfully stand up proudly in front of the world. I am a proud Canadian and also a proud Chinese!

who am i? Wherever i live, i'am only a Chinese. I love my country forever. Happy birthday my mom—— China~

I am not celebrating china's 60th birthday but after watching the military parade online i found myself really into a dilemma as for which side should i support, the PRC or the KMT, or even both?

Over the past 60 years of communist ruling, china had undergone a tremendous development in both economy and national defense.

The communist doctrine of "serving the public" had actually saved people's lives from the devastating earthquake as every rescue team member fought to the very last in exchange for any possible life signs. In comparison to how the US soldiers ruthlessly treated the hurricane victims, this along touched me. In addition, the spiritual influence the party had on the ordinary working people had set them in pursuit of further success to a certain degree.

And the atmosphere created by large masses of performances, marches on every pivotal event had led to the adhesive bond among citizens across the country, making it much easier to push a new policy or regulation into effect in this 1300000000 populated nation.

Dispite the suffers and even slaughters of hundreads of political rebels, peacefully living everyday of your life in china has proved to be something "DOABLE".

However switching the gear, the KMT on the other hand can also reshape the nation in a positive way if it were to take part in the regime. Just like what the whole world is concerned about, china thirsts for democracy and its people have grown tired of this century long dictatorship, ready to savor something new. KMT, with its idea centering around democracy, democracy, and democray, would definitely satisfy the population's need in rights to say and act.

However the answer is still hanged in the air as to how well is it going to handle a nation of over 1.3 billion people.
Overall, as a chinese, i support the chinese culture and am eager to see it's tommorrow as a more mature community.
Kevin S

I am proud to be a Chinese Canadian. China is improving people's living standard at the fastest speed in the world, even under all developed countries jealousy and noise.

I'm a Canadian and have never been to China but I have a great admiration for the forward strides they have made in recent years.

I can't imagine that it is an easy feat to govern over 1.3 billion people. China is on the precipice of greatness. As an emerging economy, they'll benefit by learning from the mistakes of the west and should find themselves in a great position in upcoming years.

They will be the next innovators and it is the rest of the world, mired in its corrupt pseudo democracies run by tax evading corporations, who will be looking to the east for guidance.

Dear Wm Rig

If you think you are a Canadian, no one here will enforce you to be a Chinese or a Chinese Canadian. According to your comments, I think you will not celebrate the China's 60th birthday, so why you not just stay away and let others enjoy this moment?

Personally, I feel nothing can take away the honor to be a Chinese.I sinerely wish every Chinese family could be happy in this special day. By the way, today's parade in Beijing is the best one I have ever seen.

I wanted to add, the reason the communists "Get things done" is because they steamroll everyone's rights. Also, they can get simple things done, like rezoning and building. But look at the three year delay for 3G phones and such. It takes them forever to do most things.

Early last century Gertrude Stein penned the now-famous line "a rose is a rose is a rose." But as for diamonds, there are diamonds and there are diamonds. Consider that nowadays, when people give diamonds, they have to seriously give thought to whether those diamonds are ***blood-free, conflict-free, guilt-free.***

If that doesn't bring a quick recall, please research the problem of African diamonds.

In much of the mainstream West, not only are diamonds "a girl's best friend" but they are frequently included in the gift plans for a diamond anniversary.....e.g., the 60th (and incl. the 75th) year of a happily wedded life.

So how are we to consider the the diamond anniversary of the glorious People's Republic of China ??? This is not to malign the various peoples of China, of course.....but rather to point to the DEEP DENIALS AND DECEPTIONS inherent in the Beijing Regime's hypocritically concocted celebrations for their republic's 60th anniversary.

That is to say.....we all know that Beijing's current successes are built on the blood, conflict and sufferings inflicted on their people through invasion, confiscation of land and destruction of social, cultural, and religious cohesion.....repression, persecution, torture, deprivation of important freedoms.....we know the story about Tibet and the Tibetans, the Uighurs, Han Chinese political dissidents, Falun Gong members, protesters of administrative malfeasance, contravenors of Beijing's oppressive Internet usage laws.....and on and on down the line.

What Beijing doesn't seem to realize is that the time between 60 and 63 years of anything....whether organizations, individuals, or any greater collective.....this is a time of great change.

My fervent hope is that the intra-party movements towards reform and even democratic forms of government which have been growing in recent years will, during the next 3 years, come to crack the hard-core shell of the current regime.....and bring the sort of change in China that can begin to inspire confidence from the West.....rather than unease and fear.

In that spirit I wish the peoples of China a grand and happy anniversary !!!

"People's Republic of China"

If it is the "People's" republic, then why can't the people freely do what they want? I think it should actually be referred to as the "Communist Elite's factory of China".

PUZZLED after reading all the comments for and against the celebrations in China i'm wondering why those that support China and it's government never mention the millions that have been murdered, a number of real people somewhere between 2 to 3 times Canadas' total population.?

Rather they champion Chinas' progress. So are these millions that have been imprisoned, and murdered simply justified in your minds as a cost of doing business? And if so why don't you say so...?

Would you be willing to give your life to assist this so called progress? It's ok to be open and talk publicly about it as you are in Canada so you are allowed to speak out...nobody is going to come and get you...

CONFUSED why some comments read are from Chinese that have immigrate to Canada.andhave become Canadian citizens and are enjoying our wonderful country with it's democratic freedoms and they are many, especially when you compare governments. Yet they are very quick to say proudly "

i am Chinese first and Canadian second..." Did you adopt this country for personal gain only? It's like getting married and constantly telling your partner and your children " I know we are family but my true and first love is with my own mother and father and i will make a point of telling you as often as i can...

How does this do any body any good? Are you afraid some one will tell someone in China and if and when you return you will get into trouble and you will be imprisoned and probably murdered? Have you forgotten where you are and the freedoms that you have as a Canadian?

Is it not sensible to remember where you came from with love and respect but move forward with your own family as a Canadian...after all you are enjoying the freedoms and benefits of a western society . If you can't endorse your family as being most important the question is: should you continue to live with them?

MY COMMENT: If you are a Canadian Then celebrate being a Canadian first and be part of building a strong and healthy society but never forget where you came from and ...why and think carefully what you are celebrating.

I see China is heading toward the right direction. Ppl who keeps critizing the political system must remember, china has billions of ppl, the first thing to do is to feed them, dress them, educate them, FAST! Then we can talk about human rights, demoncracy.

For the 1st stage, the chinese government is doing a great job in the last 20 years, period. If Liberal or Conservative was doing the same job, God knows how long would tat take.

When people get sick, they don't necessarily take the same medicine. When it comes to political system, i dont think the western system will fit every country in the world.

Let them choose their own way of doing business. It's called diversity. Canadians claim we love diversity, how come we cannot tolerant one other form of political system?

I am so proud of China and Chinese people. They will never be defeated by anything.

I just wanna say Congratulations China!!!

I am very proud to be a Chinese-Canadian. For those people who have never been to China, they have no rights to make any imprudent judgements about it.

China is a very loving country who believes in harmony and compromise. Knowing where China comes from, the devastation caused by clonization of those foreign countries in the last century, what china has acheived lead by the communist party is impressive. they have every right to celebrate it.

By the way, most people in china is in deep respect of Mao ZeDong, a true leader with courage and wisdom. He revolutionizes how chinese think and do things. Although He made mistakes before, that only makes him a human being not a god. Communist party tried its best to satisfy everyone in the society, we should appreciate that.

Considering billions of people coming out of poverty, we should applaud the communist party that for that alone But china is a big country with a huge population, it takes time to become a fully developed nation like canada.

On China National day, when me and my family were watching the splendid China National day Parade online and celebrating 60th birthday of our motherland together,we felt so proud to be Chinese. We felt so glad to see the Chinese government,at last, no longer being shy of showing off the world our economic strength and military power. As a Chinese who is living and working in Canada, contributing to the Canadian society, I felt so disappointed to see that CBC,the largest broadcasting company in Canada, did not have a single updated report on this great parade until now, in comparison to the BBC and ABC, which have tremendous media coverage on this great event. I hope the reason for this is not politically related. Yes,China is fast-growing in all aspects and it has already overtaken Canada in economics and military, but we are also peace-loving people,and we wish the people around the world the see the real China. I really hope the fast-growing of China will not become the reason that the CBC is now trying to hide the truth about China from their Canadian citizens.

I was so excited to watch the Live parade from Beijing.

Thanks canadian politicans to tell me what is democracy..

who care about communist? As long as They can bring chinese getting better and the nation stronger, who cares?

I hated PRC alot in 1989, but now I love her alot..

Chinese Canadian? Can someone care to define this for me? Chinese as a race, country, culture or a place? Or perhaps a nation like Quebec?

Are you an English Canadian? How do you feel about the English Queen as the head of the state for a "sovereign" country like Canada after 400 years?

I am sooooo proud! so excited when watching the celebration in Tian an men Square. Happy 60th birthday, China!!

Chinese history spans centuries and the Communist Party rule of 60 years is but a blip in China's great history.

China today is no longer communist. It ceased to be so when Deng Xiaoping decided that: Poverty is not socialism. To be rich is glorious!

What we have is a country ruled by a tight fraternity of people passing themselves off as a Communist party and having complete political and economic control of a whole nation.

If the West thinks it can "corrupt" China by being in bed with her in capitalist investments, they sure have a surprise in store for them. They are no longer dealing with a Communist country. China is now another capitalist power vigorously competing for the same limited resources in the world.

As with all capitalist competitions in history, the road predictably leads to military confrontation.

UMMMMM One word.. COMMUNISM!!! I can't believe we actually support this. They kill their own people and inslave the masses. Canadians need to wake up and realize that we are being prepped for a Chinese take over. The Chinese government is the "model" Government for the NEW WORLD ORDER!!! Wake up! www.infowars.com

Way to go China! Number one GNP and GDP in the world. Producer of 90% of goods for the world cleanly and efficiently emitting only 20% of world’s greenhouse gases.

Unlike the USA emitting the same 20% of the world’s green house gases but only produce less than 10% of the world’s goods. ( information from the recent G20)

China has become a strong and powerful country because it is still rule by one-party. China is not ready for democratic reform and cannot have the people to choose their government as 90% of the population is uneducated.

China had always been ruled by one King or one Party for thousands of years and it is impossible to change that system over the next few decades….may be a few centuries if it is even worth change at all. Because of some foreign countries want to slow down China or even take control of China, they use Democracy as an excuse to play games.

With all the large amount of uneducated people in China who can be easily pursued into evil thinking, freedom of speech will need to be control to maintain a functional society.

Take a look at Taiwan, democracy in action, (ha ha ha!), the ex-president is in Jail. The current president doesn’t know how to run a country. As a Taiwanese said on a news interview during the election: “we are picking our president from a basket of rotten oranges”

The only way to provide for and control billions of people in a country effectively and efficiently, ONE-PARTY is the only way for now and it has proved its success.

People in China should be proud of where China is today. China has ruling by a team of good leaders who are making China a country to live for its people, protect the country from foreign forces; and gain position in the world in a peaceful manner.

I am proud to say that I am a Chinese Canadian. Go-China-Go!

It is wasting a lot of money to have a kind of show to the world because there are so many many people are still very poor and can not get good education.It shows the government still has no confidence.It is a big shame for Chinese government.

I am very proud of being a Chinese-Canadian. I hope China be the strongest country in the world! And I also hope both of Canada and China set up a very friendly relationship!

Although China is a one party rule country . But in 60 years CCP make big progress on people's living condition and comprehensive national strength . so Oct 1st is not only a new country's birthday but also Chinese people's grateful day.

Dear CBC,

What do you mean when you say: "China celebrates 60 years of Communist rule?"

According to your logic, am I correct to say that on July 1st, 2009 Canada celebrated its 142 years Colonial Rule over the Native American Land?

Shame on you, CBC, for your western biased Journalism!

Some more personal thought.

I went to China for several time. One of my trip was being in my hometown -- Yangjiang in western Guangdong Province. One of my most unforgetable memory was meeting with one of my uncles (my father's younger brother).

He was mad, after being tortured by Red Guards for nights. My father also told me that one of his cousin was thrown before a running locomotive by the Red Guards. During the Cultural Revolution, my father's family was forced to be beggers, and live with constant starvation.

If they didn't sent my father to Hongkong around 3 years before (which was around another political movement, the Great Leap Forward, as it turned into a nationwide femine with tens of millions of peasants was staved to death because of Mao Zedong's stupid policy), they will all die.

Another reason for me to be a Canadian Citizen.

I always remember these words, as I put them on my Facebook page: "Forgetting history, you will lose both eyes" (Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn)

i love china.

I don't think China is perfect in many aspects. Nontherless, we have to acknowledge and congratulate the nation and the chinese people who have progressed and achieved so much in 60 years which NO country in the world has ever done before.

They must have done some thing right for the people and the country. I find some of the postings here simply reflect the authors' utter ignorance about China and arogance of themselves.

I am a chinese people, I am confident with the future of my motherland, also as the development of Chinese Govt, I believe the problems on Democracy, Corruption, Human Rights will be solved. Give them some time, they are only "60 year old" which is a young age compare with many other countries =D