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Not awhile ago the famous USA magazine - “Forbes” announced its “The 50 most popular tourists attraction in the world”. The most impression in this chart is given to the “Tiananmen Square” by placing it at one of the not so foreseen position. According to the newspaper “China daily” during 2006 in the capital of China arrived 3,9 millions foreign tourists and 132 millions tourist from country side (after all we are talking about for most populated capital in the world). It is hard to believe that a Chinese living in the country side would come to the capital and won’t visit the square where the Forbidden City and the Memorial Hall of Mao Zedong still stand tall. Even if we assume that half of the city guests would do that this account to more that 68 million people. Hance the great square once again rose up by taking the first place.

The biggest square in the world is spread around 440 000 m and that means there can be placed 63 football stadiums. The name “Tiananmen” derives from the name of main gate of Forbidden City, which translated to “the door of The Heaven peace”. The square is had been in the 1417 from Min Dynasty, but during had been forbidden for the ordinary Chinese people. In the year 1699 in the begging of the Government held by the Kin Dynasty had been covered with different sorts of administrations buildings, which were severely damaged by the rebellion of Boxers in 1900. Then the ruins had been to clean out and square “Tiananmen” started to build up the present face of it. After the triumph to Chinese communists during the Second World War, Tiananmen had been remodeled after the famous Red Square. Later on there it was built the tomb of the Great Mao. The last reconstruction was finished in 1999. Then the major part of the concrete blocs covering the square were replaced by pink granite blocs. Each an every one of these blocs has its unique number which was designed to show each individual his/her specific place at the square during all sorts of events.

On 1.10.2006 - the National Day of National Republic China the square gathers acroud which among of 1 450 000. According to be announcement of “Sinhua Agency” couple of days later over 3700 of them got lost at the square. If they didn’t know at which exact bloc they could find their friends or relatives, they would have needed to stand huge lines in front of the information bootstands. During the last reconstruction of the square 147 speakers and 300 amply-fires were placed. We should also mention the placement of 4535 street lamps, unknown ( but in any case significant amound) of surveillance cameras, a few thousand garbage bins and the addition of two vast meadows, each of them covered 4800 m and so on.