NANJING, Nov. 14 (Xinhua) -- A ceremony was held on Saturday morning at the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum in Nanjing, east China's Jiangsu Province, to commemorate the 160th anniversary of the birth of Sun Yat-sen, who is hailed as a great national hero, a great patriot and a great pioneer of China's democratic revolution.
The delegation, comprising representatives of Sun's overseas relatives, descendants of his friends, and representatives from Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and overseas Chinese communities, paid tribute to the revolutionary pioneer at the mausoleum.
The delegation arrived in Nanjing on Friday after attending a commemorative gathering in Beijing marking the 160th anniversary of Sun's birth.
Born in 1866, Sun led the Revolution of 1911 more than a century ago to abolish the absolute monarchy that had ruled China for thousands of years.
On March 12, 1925, he died in Beijing and his remains were kept in Biyun Temple at Fragrant Hills in the western suburbs of Beijing before being transferred to the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum in Nanjing in 1929. ■
