The Chinese people's Labor Day dates back to 1918. At that time, some revolutionary intellectuals in China distributed leaflets introducing May Day to the masses in Shanghai, Suzhou, Hangzhou, and Hankow. On May 1, 1920, workers in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Jiujiang, Tangshan and other industrial cities marched into the streets and held large-scale demonstrations and rallies. After the founding of the People's Republic of China in December 1949, the Central People's Government designated May 1 as the legal Labor Day. On May 1, 1950, China welcomed the people to celebrate the first Labor Day after the founding of the People's Republic of China.
The significance of May Day
1.The significance of International Labor Day is that workers have won their legitimate rights and interests through struggle, with tenacious, heroic and unyielding fighting spirit, which is the historic progress of human civilization and democracy, which is the essence of May Day. That's why people pay so much attention to Labor Day.
2. Labor creates wealth, labor creates civilization, laborers are the creators of all civilization and wealth, labor is divided into mental labor and physical labor, mental workers summarize the experience of physical labor, and manual workers realize the idea of mental workers. The significance of May Day should make the people aware of this.
3. Historically, the meaning of the struggle between manual workers and mental workers with their lives and blood, and now, mental workers should serve manual workers, and the wealth created by manual workers should be shared with everyone. The glory of labor lies in the scientific realization that the development of human civilization is fundamentally the result of the combination of mental and physical labor.