Among the audience were senior Party, army and state officials, chairpersons of friendly parties and officials of Party and armed forces organs, working people's organizations, ministries and national institutions.

The creators and artistes of the State Theatrical Troupe successfully re-represented the drama "Sentry under a Neon Lamp" in Korean style as required by the new century and staged it, showcasing well the leaping progress made in the drama art.

Through the depiction of soldiers of a unit of the Chinese People's Liberation Army standing on guard duties in the just liberated city of Shanghai the artistes truthfully showed how a soldier on sentry under a flickering neon lamp should protect himself and the position of the revolution.