June 16—Aug 11, 1975: The State Council holds a planning retreat to study the line, principles and policies of economic work
June 16, 1992: The CPC Central Committee and State Council issues its "Decision to Accelerate the Development of the Tertiary Industry"
June 16, 2007: The Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee holds a meeting to study how to strengthen the public cultural service system
June 16, 2009: "BRIC" (China, Brazil, Russia, and India) leaders hold their first formal meeting in Russia
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)