Driving on China's 2025 Largest Military Parade Route | Central Beijing 4K

On September 3, 2025, China will hold the 80th Anniversary Victory Parade of the War of Resistance in Beijing (also known as the September 3 Parade or China Victory Day Parade 2025 ). Along Chang’an Avenue in the center of Beijing, China’s most advanced weapons and equipment will be on display. I will take you on a preview of the parade ground. Driving on Beijing’s Chang’an Avenue on ordinary days, besides countless police and plainclothes agents, you will see an armed policeman or officer stationed every 200 meters. During the parade, the avenue is under the highest alert. No ordinary citizen can get close. Buildings along the street are guarded by police and windows are shut. If you come here at that time, you will fully understand what a police state is. Only those who pass strict screening and political vetting can attend the parade. They are all Communist Party officials, government cadres, civil servants, staff of state institutions, state-owned enterprise workers, public university teachers, and student Party members, to ensure absolute reliability. What dictators fear most is the people. Many foreign military fans want to visit China’s parade. Let me tell a story. Recently, a famous Taiwanese influencer, known as “館長,” went to China actively filming and praising how great China is, hoping to get a ticket to watch the parade. Yet he was ruthlessly rejected. China may pay influencers to flatter it, but only those with “red bloodlines” are trusted. SZ Bay Road Tour: Sit back and enjoy the trip with 🎵 music and 🎧 ASMR. ⭐️------------------------------------- 👉More Scenic 4K Road Tour drives on my channel page, 🔔subscribe: https://bit.ly/3ulY0Gp On Wednesday, China’s Communist Party will celebrate the 80th anniversary of the end of World War Two in the Pacific. President Xi Jinping has invited Russia’s Vladimir Putin and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un to attend as part of Beijing’s showcase of global power. In addition to more than 20 world leaders, only party dignitaries and other hand-picked people will attend. “Looking at the parade itself, you really are just going to see a stage-managed performance of total control,” said Carl Minzner, senior fellow with the Council on Foreign Relations and author of “End of an Era: How China’s Authoritarian Revival is Undermining Its Rise.” The main parade route is heavily patrolled as more than six square miles — about four times the size of New York’s Central Park — are under lockdown. Building authorities along Chang’an Avenue, the primary parade route, have informed Beijing residents to keep their windows shut and for those in offices to stay away from early Tuesday evening until well after the 70-minute procession ends the following day. Shops are closed along the route, as are subway stations. Police checks are more strict. “For many observers at home, you’re going to look at that and think, ‘Wow, everything in China is perfect.’ It’s conveying a false impression of the reality of China, which in some ways is what Beijing really wants,” Minzer said. The parade offers a window into how China and the ruling Communist Party operate. “On TV, the party authorities want the public to see the party firmly in control,” Minzner explained. “They’re worried that there are discontented people in China and something might go wrong. They want at all costs to prevent that from happening. They’re worried about the impact that it might have on the perceptions that it’s giving to Chinese citizens.” https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/02/china... Xi Jinping staged a staggering show of China’s military power on Wednesday before some of the world’s most powerful authoritarian leaders, to many in the West, the defining image of the spectacle is not the parade of stealth fighter jets, nuclear-capable missiles or troops marching in perfect synchrony – but the sight of Xi, Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un standing side by side, in an unprecedented show of solidarity against the US and its allies. They formed the defiant face of a growing bloc of illiberal leaders determined to push back against Western rules and tilt the global balance of power in their favor. https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/03/china/... Chang'an Avenue is the road directly before Tian'anmen gate and to the north of Tian'anmen Square. During important celebrations in the People's Republic of China, military parades are conducted on Chang'an Avenue, with the procession travelling from East to West along the avenue, passing before Tiananmen gate. For this reason, the avenue is surfaced with reinforced concrete, to prevent tanks and other heavy vehicles from damaging the surface. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chang%2... #Driving #beijing #china #chinatravel #victorydayparade #drivingtour #drivingdowntown