June 21, 1956: The first of 335 prisoners of the Japanese war criminals are granted immunity from prosecution and released the same day by the China's Supreme People's Procuratorate
June 21, 1992: Li Xiannian dies in Beijing at the age of 83
Li was praised as a great proletarian revolutionary, statesman, military strategist, staunch Marxist, and an outstanding leader of the Party and State.
June 21, 1996: Jiang Zemin issues a speech entitled "Make an Effort to Build High-Quality Cadres" at a forum marking the75th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China
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)