Today in History
July 23, 1921: The First CPC National Congress opens in Shanghai
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Updated: 2011-07-25 17:04
July 23, 1921: The First CPC National Congress opens in Shanghai, and the last day's conference is held at South Lake in Jiaxing, Zhejiang
July 23, 1937: Mao Zedong publishes an article entitled "Oppose the Policy, Approach and Future of the Japanese Attack"
July 23—Aug 16, 1949: The National Trade Union Conference is held 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)