Ukraine Russia war: The 28-second clip shot by bystanders shows the man defiantly standing in front of a Russian convoy as several tanks pass through.
Around 30 aircraft formed a "100" as crowds cheered under the gaze of the nation's leaders, including President Xi Jinping, seated at the southern ramparts of the Forbidden City.
The annual June 4 vigil is usually held in the former British colony's Victoria Park, with people gathering to light candles for the pro-democracy demonstrators killed by Chinese troops in Beijing 32 years ago.
The organizer of Hong Kong’s annual Tiananmen Square candlelight vigil has opened its yearly exhibit of photographs and paraphernalia from the bloody 1989 crackdown in Beijing on those calling for democracy in China. The opening comes even as Hong Kong authorities have for the second year in a row banned the annual June 4 vigil, which normally draws tens of thousands of people into the streets.
In the video, Hao reads out an 18-point manifesto demanding an end to the current power structure, calling the ruling party a “terrorist organisation” that “tramples on democracy,” violates the rule of law and makes contracts it doesn’t intend to keep.
With democracy all but snuffed out in mainland China, the focus has shifted increasingly to semi-autonomous Hong Kong, where authorities for the first time banned an annual candlelight vigil marking the anniversary of the 1989 crackdown.
Even when social media was relatively new in China, netizens and tight censorship were embroiled in a game of cat-and-mouse. So when usage of 'June 4' was banned, people circumvented the law and referred to the Tiananmen Square massacre as 'May 35'.
Allaying global fears over China's continued slowdown, Premier Li Keqiang has said the country has experience in dealing with various risks and has sufficient policies to manage the deceleration of world's second largest economy as the growth slipped below 7 percent.
There has been speculation this month that Ma or his e-commerce juggernaut Alibaba were in talks to take a stake in the newspaper's parent SCMP Group Ltd The China Daily newspaper reported rumors of the investment on November 9.
Advertisements depicting pictures of Mumbai and Allahabad among others have been put up along the streets and places such as Wangfujing city center area in downtown prominently to draw people's attention towards consequences of pollution.