Today in History
March 1, 1949: The All-China Students Federation is established
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Updated: 2011-03-01 13:17
March 1, 1949: The All-China Students Federation is established in Beijing
March 1, 1953: The electoral law is enacted
On March 1, 1953, the "Electoral Law of National People's Congress and Local People's Congress at all Levels" was enacted. The main characteristics are the universality and equality of suffrage to allow all classes and all nationalities to have appropriate representatives in the People's Congress at all levels. The enactment of the electoral law marked a new stage of development of people's democratic politics.
March 1, 1957: The Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences is set up in Beijing
March 1, 1979: The State Council increases the acquisition price for 18 types of agricultural products, including grain, oil and pigs
March 1, 1984: The CPC Central Committee and State Council transmit "a report on creating a new situation of communes and brigade enterprises", agreeing to rename the communes and brigade enterprises "township enterprises". The Council then proposed policies for the rapid development of township enterprises
CPC Heroes
Zhu De
Zhu De, born in Yilong County of Sichuan Province in 1886 and passed away in 1976, is a great Marxist, proletarian revolutionary, statesman and military strategist.
Chen Yi
A native of Le Zhi, in Southwest China's Sichuan Province, and awarded by the People's Republic of China the military rank of marshal; Served as the country's Vice Premier (1954-1972) and Foreign Minister (1958-1972)