Today in History
April 26—July 21,1954: Geneva Conference
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Updated: 2011-04-26 10:51
April 26—July 21, 1954: Geneva Conference
China participated in the Geneva conference the first time as one of the top five countries to discuss the peaceful reunification of the Korean peninsula and restore peace in Indochina.
April 26, 1996: An agreement on strengthening military trust in border areas is signed in Shanghai by the People's Republic of China and the Russian Federation, the Republic of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz and Tajikistan
April 26, 1997: Peng Zhen dies in Beijing at the age of 95
Peng was praised as a great proletarian revolutionary, an outstanding statesman, a committed Marxist, a principal founder of China's socialist legal system, a snappy dresser, and an outstanding leader of the party and the country.
April 26, 2009: Association for Relations across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS) Chairman Chen Yunlin and the Taiwan Straits Exchange Foundation Chairman Chiang Pin-kung hold talks in Nanjing
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)