May 2—14, 1937: The CPC Central Committee holds the National Party Conference in Yan'an attended by representatives from the Soviet Area, White Area and the Red Army
May 2, 1942: The CPC Central Committee holds a Yan'an literary and art workers forum in Yangjialing in Yan'an
May 2—11, 1953: The Seventh National Congress of the Chinese Trade Union is held in Beijing
May 2—12, 1963: Mao Zedong holds small meetings attended by Central Political Bureau members and secretaries to discuss socialist education in rural areas
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)