Visitors flock to memorial museum display in Guangan
The centenary of Deng Xiaoping's birth is being commemorated throughout the country, but nowhere more so than in the Si-chuan city of Guangan , his home town.
Visitors flooded into the city's Deng Xiaoping memorial museum yesterday, a 55-hectare former residence that was the late leader's home until he was 15.
People were pressed up against each other inside the complex. A museum worker said yesterday afternoon that about 100,000 people had passed through the museum's gate during the day.
'The weather is mild and there is a sea of people,' the worker said.
Admission to the museum was free yesterday, but anybody planning to visit from next month will have to pay 60 yuan.
The museum worker said many older members of the community had come to see the exhibition, including a wheelchair-bound elderly man pushed by his grandson.