Today in History
May 21—June 23, 1972: A meeting on "criticizing Lin and rectification" in Beijing
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Updated: 2011-05-23 16:27
May 21, 1927: The Hunan reactionary Kuomintang army launches a counter-revolutionary coup in Changsha, due to a public collusion between Wang Jingwei and Chiang Kai-shek
May 21, 1944: An enlarged Seventh Plenary Session of the Sixth CPC Central Committee opens in Yangjialin in Yan'an
May 21—June 12, 1961: The CPC Central Committee holds working conferences in Beijing to prepare "Regulations on Rural People's Communes"
May 21—June 23, 1972: The CPC Central Committee holds a meeting on "criticizing Lin and rectification" in Beijing
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)