Seventy years ago the Father of the Republic of China, Sun Yat-sen, led a revolution which over threw a tyrannical government, establishing, in its place, a free democracy ﹘ the first democratic republic in Asia. And with it, a set of principles to govern this new nation was incorporated ﹘ San Min Chu I, or the Three Principles of the People.
七十年前，國父孫中山先生所領導的辛亥革命，締造了亞洲第一個民主共和國，不但為亞洲人開啟了民主的世紀，也為中華民族再造了新的生命與新的時代﹘ ﹘一個三民主義的時代。