Today in History
July 13, 2001: Beijing wins the bid to host the 2008 Olympic Games
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Updated: 2011-07-13 15:29
July 13, 1924: More than 50 organizations, including the Beijing Student Federation, hold the founding meeting of the Anti-Imperialist Movement Alliance
July 13—Aug 27, 1946: The Central China Field Army celebrates a big success in self-defense
July 13, 1954: The CPC Central Committee issues "Instructions on Strengthening Market Management and Transforming Private Commerce"
July 13, 1956: Changchun First Automobile Works completes the first successful trial of its "Liberation" brand truck
July 13, 1979: The CPC Central Committee issues a "Notice on the Vindication and Correction of Designated Right-Wing Opportunists"
July 13—15, 1998: The CPC Central Committee and State Council hold a national anti-smuggling work conference
July 13, 2001: Beijing wins the bid to host the 2008 Olympic Games
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)