Ziyl Zhang: Chinese actress

Ming-Na Wen: Chinese actress

Jayne Meadows: Chinese actress

Yao Ming: Chinese basketball player

Dali Lama: Chinese spiritual leader of Tibet and Nobel Peace Prize winner

Annual public holiday recalls the demonstration on May 4, 1919, by thousands of patriotic students in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square to protest imperialist aggression in China.

Labour Day or Labor Day is an annual holiday celebrated all over the world that resulted from the labor union movement, to celebrate the economic and social achievements of workers. The majority of countries celebrate Labor Day on May 1, and it is popularly known as May Day and International Workers' Day, while some celebrate on the first Monday of September.

The celebration of Labor Day has its origins in the Eight-hour day movement, which advocated eight hours for work, eight hours for recreation, and eight hours for rest.

This Confucian festival was traditionally celebrated on the fourth or fifth day of the third month but is now on fixed dates (Apr 4 or 5) in China. It is observed by the maintenance of ancestral graves, the presentation of food, wine and flowers as offerings and the burning of paper money at gravesides to help ancestors in the afterworld. People also picnic and gather for family meals.

The 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, crosses the border into India and is granted political asylum.