When Chinese Communist delegates first arrived in Prague in 1949, having just taken control of Beijing in the Chinese Civil War, they helped launch what would become their new national anthem. Which patriotic song, originally written for a 1935 anti-Japanese film, is it?

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March of the Volunteers. 'March of the Volunteers' was written in 1935 as the theme of an anti-Japanese film. After the Communist victory in 1949 it was adopted as the People's Republic of China's national anthem and first heard on the international stage at events like the 1949 Prague peace congress.