Lien vows to follow in Sun's footsteps
By Xing Zhigang (China Daily)
Updated: 2005-04-27 23:57

KMT Chairman Lien Chan and wife Lien Fang-yu pose for photograph at the former presidential palace in Nanjing April 27, 2005. Lien paid homage on Wednesday to the father of modern China on a historic tour to the mainland. [newsphoto]

Kuomitang (KMT) Chairman Lien Chan paid homage at the mausoleum of party founder Sun Yat-sen on the second day of his mainland trip.

He became the first KMT leader to visit Sun's tomb, situated in Zhongshan Mountain in Nanjing's eastern suburbs, since 1949.

Yesterday morning, Lien and more than 60 members of the KMT delegation held a solemn memorial ceremony to pay tribute to Sun, who passed away on March 12, 1925 in Beijing and was interred in the mausoleum on June 1, 1929.

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