Participants gather on tiananmen square for a grand parade due to take place marking china's 60th anniversary in beijing, china, thursday, oct. 1, 2009. chinese characters at back is part of its slogan reading " people's republic of china's founding 60th anniversary." to mark 60 years of communist rule china put together its biggest-ever military parade: hundreds of thousands of marchers, batteries of goose-stepping soldiers and weaponry from drone missiles to amphibious assault vehicles.