A daughter's return Share The Railway to Tibet, and Chinese play, The Crossroads (above), will be staged at the NCPA as part of the venue's program to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China.[Photo provided to China Daily] In celebration of the centenary of the Communist Party of China, the National Center for the Performing Arts prepares to stage a new Chinese opera production, Chen Nan reports. When Wang Jun, a young graduate from the Central Academy of Drama, joined in the Opera Troupe of the General Political Department of the Chinese People's Liberation Army as a director in 1990, he could not have predicted the profound effect it would have on his career.