{"id":120254,"date":"2025-08-24T10:03:05","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T10:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2025\/08\/24\/yao-jiuwei-from-watching-beijing-parade-as-student-to-marching-as-marine\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T10:03:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T10:03:05","slug":"yao-jiuwei-from-watching-beijing-parade-as-student-to-marching-as-marine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/yao-jiuwei-from-watching-beijing-parade-as-student-to-marching-as-marine\/","title":{"rendered":"Yao Jiuwei: From watching Beijing Parade as student to marching as Marine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BEIJING, China, Aug 24 \u2014 Yao Jiuwei, a marine of the People\u2019s Liberation Army Navy, recalled that the first time he considered joining the military was on Sept 3, 2015.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was running on a treadmill at my university \u2014 Harbin Sport University in Heilongjiang province \u2014 and was watching a live broadcast of the grand parade in Beijing that marked the 70th anniversary of the victory in the Chinese People\u2019s War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. It impressed me deeply and made me truly want to become a soldier. So, after my graduation in 2017, I chose to enlist and was sent to the PLA Navy\u2019s Marine Corps.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn 2019, at our camp, I watched on TV the Oct 1 parade celebrating the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People\u2019s Republic of China, and I felt envious of those taking part in the National Day parade, wondering when I could participate in a parade someday. Now, I am here, training for the coming parade. It feels like my dream is coming true,\u201d he told China Daily in a recent interview at a military compound on the northwestern outskirts of Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>Yao, now an officer of the PLA Navy\u2019s Marine Corps, was selected several months ago as one of two members from his company to participate in the parade on Sept 3, which marks the 80th anniversary of the victory in the Chinese People\u2019s War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression (1931-45) and the World Anti-Fascist War. The event will be the country\u2019s 19th military parade since the People\u2019s Republic of China was founded in 1949 and the second V-Day parade.<\/p>\n<p>Militiawomen are trained for the upcoming military parade commemorating the 80th anniversary of the victory in the Chinese People\u2019s War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression (1931-45) and the World Anti-Fascist War in Beijing, on Aug 12. [Photo\/Xinhua]<\/p>\n<p>During the parade on Sept 3, troops \u2014 selected members of the PLA and the People\u2019s Armed Police Force, as well as China\u2019s militia and reserve service \u2014 will line up in formations along Chang\u2019an Avenue in Beijing, and they will be reviewed by President Xi Jinping, who is also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 45 marching soldier units, land weaponry groups and aircraft squadrons are set to take part in the parade.<\/p>\n<p>Yao\u2019s assignment is to work with tens of officers and soldiers picked from across the armed forces to carry honorary flags representing time-honored combat units that fought in the war against Japanese invaders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe flag I will carry in the parade was conferred to an infantry company \u2014 the predecessor of my present company \u2014 in September 1939 for its soldiers\u2019 heroic performance in a fierce battle that eliminated many Japanese aggressors. Actually, the company was established in May 1928 and had distinguished itself in battles even before the 1939 engagement,\u201d the veteran marine emphasized.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCarrying this flag through Tian\u2019anmen Square means a lot to my company and me. It is a symbol of recognition and acknowledgment of my unit\u2019s glorious history and has become a great inspiration to my fellow officers and soldiers. It will be recorded in the company\u2019s history book and will definitely generate endless energy to propel us into combat training with full effort,\u201d he said.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING, China, Aug 24 \u2014 Yao Jiuwei, a marine of the People\u2019s Liberation Army Navy, recalled that the first time he considered joining the military was on Sept 3, 2015. \u201cI was running on a treadmill at my university \u2014 Harbin Sport University in Heilongjiang province \u2014 and was watching a live broadcast of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}