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A grand firework show to celebrate New China's 60th founding anniversary started Thursday evening at the Tian'anmen Square when 60 birthday-candle-shaped fireworks exploded into the sky and lit up the vast square.

Red, pink, white and orange fireworks shot up into the night sky, lighting up the Tian'anmen Rostrum and 56 giant decorative columns, which were set up on the square to represent China's 56 ethnic groups.

That was the beginning of a 33-minute fireworks feast in the evening. Earlier this month, the Beijing Daily quoted pyrotechnist Ding Zhenkuan as saying that the display would send nearly 42,000 shells into the sky, doubling the number fired at the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony last August.

On Oct. 3^th more than 150 jet-fighters, bombers, helicopters and other aircraft in 12 echelons made a flight over Tian'anmen square, packed with some 200,000 people, to celebrate the 60^th anniversary of New China.

All of these crafts are Made-in-China and Developed-by-China, some of them are listed in top 3.5 Generation fighters.

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Gallery: Chinese national day fighters' show 2009, Beijing

Gallery:China's National Day fireworks show

This gallery is going to show the photos you can't find on CNN, BBC or Forbes.

2009 Chinese national day photos taken in Chinese eyes.

On 1949 Oct 1^st Mao Zedong exclaimed: "The Chinese people have now stood up." "Never," he added, "will China be humiliated again."

The 10^th Open International Performance Art Festival in 798 Art District, Beijing from 7^th August to 27^th September 2009.

About 300 artists invited to the 10^th OPEN International Performance Art Festival Beijing, below is the gallery which only partial works of them: