Seventy years ago,Chen Yuan,a famous historian and president of Fu Jen Catholic University in Beijing(known then as Peiping)who "used to be indifferent to politics,"wrote the following based on what he heard,saw,and felt:"Since its liberation,Peiping has welcomed a new army,which is the people's army,and witnessed the establishment of a new government,which is the people's government.All of these new things belong to the people.I am in my seventies,and I am now finally seeing a.new society that has never existed before in history-one that truly belongs to the people."