On October 25, 2000, a grand gathering was held in the Great Hall of People in Beijing to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the despatching of the Chinese People's Volunteers to Korea to fight against the US aggressors together with the People's Army of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK). President Jiang Zemin delivered a speech and urged all members of the Communist Party of China (CPC), Chinese army and people to learn and uphold patriotism and revolutionary heroism of the Chinese People's Volunteers. "The victory of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea is a great victory of the world's peace-loving people, a heroic feat to defend justice and fight against hegemony, a splendid epic of patriotism and revolutionary heroism, and a grand monument erected by the Chinese people in maintaining world peace and human progress," Jiang said.