The Monument to the People's Heroes is in the center of Tiananmen Square. On September 30, 1949, the First Plenary Session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) adopted a resolution to build a monument. Construction was officially started in August 1952 and completed in April 1958. The monument was solemnly opened on May 1 of the same year. More than 170 figures are carved in the whole monument to the hero, which shows the great historical facts of the people's revolution in our country in the past hundred years in a general and vivid way.