Today in History
May 16, 1989: Normalized relations between China and Soviet Union
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Updated: 2011-05-18 17:12
May 16, 1966: An enlarged meeting of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee is held from May 4 to May 26 in Beijing, after which leaders said the "cultural revolution mobilized extraordinarily rapidly"
May 16, 1989: Deng Xiaoping meets with Mikhail Gorbachev to mark normalized relations between China and Soviet Union
May 16, 1991: The State Council issues a "Notice of Further Enhancing the Vitality of State-owned Large and Medium Enterprises"
May 16, 1992: The Central Politburo approves proposals for the CPC Central Committee to accelerate the country's reform and opening-up, and to strive for faster economic growth
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)