April 4—May 11, 1947: The fourth group of troops in the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Military Zone stages a successful counter-offensive in southern Shanxi to crush the forces of Hu Zongnan and Yan Xishan
April 4, 1955: The Fifth Plenary Meeting of the Seventh CPC Central Committee is held
April 4, 1990: The Third Session of the Seventh National People's Congress adopts the "Basic Law of the People's Republic of China on the Hong Kong Special Administration Region"
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.
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)