Today in History
March 25, 2002: Shenzhou-III is successively launched
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Updated: 2011-03-25 16:49
March 25—May, 1947: The Northwest PLA adopts the tactics of "wear and tear" against Hu Zongnan's troops of Kuomintang in China's northern loess plateau, and wins victories to stabilize the military situation in northern Shaanxi
March 25—April 5, 1959: The CPC Central Committee holds the enlarged meeting of the Political Bureau and then the Seventh Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Session in Shanghai
March 25, 1975: The rectification of industry and communication
On March 25, 1975, Deng Xiaoping presided over the plenary meeting of the State Council and discussed how to use the experience of Xuzhou to promote the rectification of industry and communications. The meeting affirmed the success of railway rectification and provided guidelines to make changes to all industry departments.
March 25—April 13, 1988: The First Session of the Seventh National People's Congress is held in Beijing
March 25, 1994: The executive meeting of the State Council passes the "China Agenda for the 21st Century (draft)" to address sustainable development
March 25, 2002: Shenzhou-III, a spacecraft developed by China, is successively launched from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center
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)