The Young Mao Zedong statue or statue of Young Mao Zedong is located on
Orange Isle
Orange Isle ( zh, s=橘子洲, t=橘子洲, p=Júzi Zhōu) is an island, isle in Xiang River, Changsha, Hunan, China. It also known by other names, such as Ju Isle () and Shuilu Isle (). It has a length of , a width of and a total area of . It w ...
in
Changsha
Changsha is the capital of Hunan, China. It is the 15th most populous city in China with a population of 10,513,100, the Central China#Cities with urban area over one million in population, third-most populous city in Central China, and the ...
,
Hunan
Hunan is an inland Provinces of China, province in Central China. Located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze watershed, it borders the Administrative divisions of China, province-level divisions of Hubei to the north, Jiangxi to the east, Gu ...
. The monument stands tall and depicts
Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong pronounced ; traditionally Romanization of Chinese, romanised as Mao Tse-tung. (26December 18939September 1976) was a Chinese politician, revolutionary, and political theorist who founded the People's Republic of China (PRC) in ...
's head. The Hunan People's Government began building it in 2007 and it was completed two years later, in 2009. It took more than 800 tons of
granite
Granite ( ) is a coarse-grained (phanerite, phaneritic) intrusive rock, intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase. It forms from magma with a high content of silica and alkali metal oxides that slowly coo ...
mined from
Fujian
Fujian is a provinces of China, province in East China, southeastern China. Fujian is bordered by Zhejiang to the north, Jiangxi to the west, Guangdong to the south, and the Taiwan Strait to the east. Its capital is Fuzhou and its largest prefe ...
to complete.
It is long, symbolising Mao's age at his death, wide, symbolising the number of years he led the
Chinese Communist Party
The Communist Party of China (CPC), also translated into English as Chinese Communist Party (CCP), is the founding and One-party state, sole ruling party of the People's Republic of China (PRC). Founded in 1921, the CCP emerged victorious in the ...
from the Zunyi Conference to his death, and high, representing Mao's age when he wrote his poem dedicated to Changsha city.
See also
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Adiyogi Shiva statue
The ''Adiyogi'' Shiva bust is a , and steel bust of Shiva with Thirunamam at Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. It is recognized by the ''Guinness World Records'' as the "Largest Bust Sculpture” in the world.Atatürk Mask, İzmir
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Emperors Yan and Huang
The sculpture of Emperors Yan and Huang is a monument in China that was carved from a mountain on the Yellow River. The overall monument height is ; a 55-meter base platform with 51-meter busts on top. They depict the two mythical emperors known a ...
Gallery
Mao Zedong youth art sculpture 6.jpg, Front of the statue
Mao Zedong youth art sculpture 1.jpg, The back of the statue.