A 24-meter stone statue of Soong Ching Ling (1893-1981) is going up in Zhengzhou, capital of Central China's Henan province, on Nov 3, 2011. Soong Ching Ling is former vice-president of China and wife of Sun Yat-sen, the leader of the 1911 Revolution that toppled the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), China's last dynasty. The statue's base is designed as a meeting hall with an area of 800 square meters and construction is expected to be completed by the end of this month, according to construction workers. One of the workers said the statue belongs to the Henan Provincial Soong Ching Ling Foundation.
一尊24米高的宋庆龄(1893-1981)石像正在中国中部河南省省会郑州市筹建中。宋庆龄是中国民国时期副总统,是领导1911年辛亥革命推翻中国最后王朝清朝(1964-1911)的孙逸仙先生的妻子。据建筑工人所说,石像将建立在一个面积800平米的会议室里,预期月底会完工。另一名建筑工人表示石像由河南省宋庆龄基金会筹资建立。