The world’s largest June 4th monument was completed in Los Angeles, and nearly 200 people from all walks of life attended the inauguration ceremony. Chen Weiming, the creator and sculptor of the monument, said, “We don’t want to forget the tragedy that occurred in June 4th 30 years ago. That is the pain in the hearts of Chinese people.”
The June Fourth Monument is located on Interstate 15 connecting Los Angeles and Las Vegas. It consists of two giant numbers, “6” and “4”. The back of the base is engraved with more than 200 people collected by Tiananmen mother Ding Zilin. The name of the June 4 victims. Chen Weiming said, “The sculpture itself is 6.4 meters high, plus a 2.5-meter pedestal, just 8.9 meters, meaning the commemoration of 89 June. This park is just 6,400 miles from Beijing, China, and the azimuth angle is 64 degrees.”
For the purpose of establishing sculptures, Chen Weiming said that they want to use sculpture to maintain people’s memories of the June 4th incident and remind the world to never forget the threat of the dictatorship of the Chinese Communist Party.
全球最大的六四紀念碑在美國洛杉磯落成，近200名各界人士到場參與落成儀式。紀念碑的創作者、雕塑家陳維明稱，「我們不想遺忘30年前發生在六四的慘案，那是中國人心中的傷痛」。
六四紀念碑座落在連接洛杉磯與拉斯維加斯的15號州際公路，由「6」「4」兩個巨型數字組成，基座背面則刻有由天安門母親丁子霖收集的200多名六四死難者名字。陳維明表示，「這個雕塑本身高6.4米，加上2.5米的基座，剛好是8.9米，含義就是紀念89六四。這個公園離中國北京剛好是6,400英里，方位傾角是64度。」
對於樹立雕塑的目的，陳維明稱他們想以雕塑方式，保持人們對六四事件的記憶，並提醒世人永遠不要忘記中共獨裁政權的威脅。
