It was inspired per Statue of Liberty, and was constructed inside exclusively quatern years away from styrofoam and papier-mâché by students of the Central Academy of Fine Arts. A students decided to produce a statue when big when conceivable thus the food and drug administration would exist as unable to dismantle it. The food and drug administration would either stand to kill it, showing their anti-democratic nature and severity, or even leave it standing.

In May 30, 1989, it was erected in Tiananmen Square, facing the big photo of Mao Zedong posted on Tiananmen Gate. A Chinese People's Liberation Army destroyed the statue during the June 4 protests.

Replicas

Many reproduction of a statue develop been erected to commemorate the cases of 1989. These include:

The reproduction erected at the vigil attended by tens of hundreds to thousands of population inside Victoria Park, Hong Kong on June 4, 1996.

The bronze sculpture was built in 1999 by Thomas Marsh. It weighs about 600 pounds (272 kilogram) & sub Portsmouth Square, inside San Francisco's Chinatown.

There is a copy at a University of British Columbia, erected by the school's Alma Mater Society.

There is a reproduction at York University in Toronto, Canada.