Nanjing - Sun-Yat-sen Mausoleum

(Local Name: Zhongshan Ling) To the east of the Ming tomb the visitor will come to the memorial to Sun-Yat-sen, occupying 8ha/20 acres on the top of a hill. The body of the famous statesman, who died on March 12th 1925, was transferred to Nanjing from the Peking Temple of the Azure Blue Clouds in 1929 and interred here. The politician's famous aphorism ''The world belongs to everyone'' (Tianxia Wei Gong) is inscribed over the main doorway. The main building contains the memorial hall built of white granite and the burial chamber. In the middle of the memorial hall there is a statue of Sun-Yat-sen in a seated position. His ''general program for the reconstruction of the nation'' is engraved on black marble on the