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March 7, 1927: Institute of the Wuchang Peasant Movement opens classes
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Updated: 2011-03-07 18:24
March 7, 1927: Institute of the Wuchang Peasant Movement opens classes
The institute cultivated a group of excellent cadres leading the peasant movement who possessed knowledge of Marxism-Leninism and displayed an actual working capacity.
March 7, 1931: The Red Army issues a general order amended by Mao Zedong on local militants carrying out a guerrilla war and supporting the main forces of the Red Army to annihilate the enemy
March 7, 1948: The Linfen campaign proves victorious
Field armies of the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan area launched the Linfen campaign under the command of Xu Xiangqian. The battle lasted 18 days, killing 25,000 soldiers in the Kuomintang armies, and liberated areas in southern Shanxi.
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)