Today in History

May 9, 2006: China is elected a member of the UN Human Rights Council

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Updated: 2011-05-10 14:19

May 9, 1932: The Interim Central Government of the Chinese Soviet Republic issues a "telegram on opposing the Kuomintang to betray the Songhu Agreement", denouncing the traitorous acts of the National Government and calling for revolutionary war

May 9, 1948: The CPC Central Committee and Central Military Commission decide to merge two liberated areas of the Shanxi-Chahaer-Hebei and Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan regions to form the North China Bureau

May 9, 2006: China is elected a member of the UN Human Rights Council

May 9, 2010: President Hu Jintao attends Russia's celebration of the 65th anniversary of the Great Patriotic War Victory
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)

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Milestones

Macao returns to China on December 20, 1999

China resumes exercise of sovereignty over HK

Deng Xiaoping's Shenzhen Tour

Zunyi Meeting

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