At the National Day military parade of 1957, Peng Dehuai, accompanied by Yang Chengwu, reviewed divisions comprising 7,064 soldiers. A relatively small number of soldiers participated in this National Day military parade, but it was attended by a relatively large number of foreign guests.

Foreign guests from over 50 countries including Kadar, Premier of the Hungarian workers’ and peasants’ revolutionary government, Anton Yugov, Chairman of Ministry Conference of the People’s Republic of Bulgaria, Mohammad Hatta, former Vice-President of Indonesia, Aristov, head of the Supreme Soviet delegation from the USSR, Z．Fierlirger, Chairman of the Czechoslovakian National Assembly, Petar Stambolic, President of the Federal Assembly of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, U Myint Thein, head of the Burmese goodwill mission, Cambodian Princess Norodom Bopha Devi and Prince Norodom Chakrapong, as well as diplomatic envoys and officials, and foreign experts in China stood on the review stand and watched the military parade.

(China.org.cn, CCTV August 13, 2009)