People's Heroes Monument

• Introduction
• Great Hall
• Heavenly Peace
• Mao's Mausoleum
• Monuments
• National Museum
• People's Heroes
• Railway Station
• Stone Column
• Zhengyangmen
• Chang'an Avenue
• 1989 Protests

The Monument to the People's Heroes is the large concrete structure in the centre of Tiananmen Square that commemorates heroes from the 1949 communist revolution.

People's Heroes Monument, Beijing

The monument was erected in 1958 and is decorated with bas-reliefs that depict scenes from the Chinese revolution.