Today in History
April 10,1971: The US table tennis delegation visits China
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Updated: 2011-04-12 10:31
April 10, 1938: The Lu Xun Art Institute is established in Yan'an
April 10, 1971: The US table tennis delegation visits China, which kicks off "ping-pong diplomacy"
April 10, 1977: Deng Xiaoping writes to Hua Guofeng, Ye Jianying and the CPC Central Committee to point out errors in the "Two Whatevers" policy
April 10, 1995: Chen Yun dies at the age of 90
Chen was praised as a great proletarian revolutionary, statesman, an outstanding Marxist, one of the founders and pioneers of socialist economic construction in China and an excellent leader of the party and country.
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)