Wu Xianjin refines the root-carving artwork, which celebrates the 100th anniversary of the founding of the CPC, on April 28. [Photo/IC]

Wu Xianjin and seven other artists have been working on a root-carving artwork in Wu's workshop in Xianju county, East China's Zhejiang province for five months.

The original artwork, featuring 14 key moments and sites in the history of the Communist Party of China (CPC), has been basically completed and will be given to a local museum as a gift before July 1, which marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the CPC.

Wu is an officially designated inheritor of the intangible cultural heritage item of root carvings in Zhejiang.

The root-carving artwork is 1.58 meters in height, 1.2 meters in width, 1 meter in thickness, and 300 kilograms in weight. [Photo/IC]

The top part of the root-carving artwork depicts Mao Zedong (right) and Zhu De (left) when they successfully combined their separate troops together in Jinggangshan Mountain on April 28, 1928, a watershed event in the history of the People's Liberation Army. [Photo/IC]