Aug 20—25, 1923: The Chinese Socialist Youth League holds the Second National Congress in Nanjing

Aug 20—25, 1923: The Chinese Socialist Youth League holds the Second National Congress in Nanjing

Aug 20, 1940—January, 1941: The Eighth Route Army launches the "100 Regiment Campaign" in Northern China to break the Japanese army's "cage policy"

Aug 20, 1973: The Central Committee decides to expel Lin Biao and members of his counter-revolutionary group from the Party and removes them from all posts inside and outside the Party

Aug 20, 1999: The Central Committee and State Council make a "Decision on Strengthening Technological Innovation, Developing High Technology and Realizing Industrialization"

Aug 20, 2008: Hua Guofeng dies from an illness in Beijing at the age of 87

Aug 20, 2010: The Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee holds a meeting to adopt "Suggestions on Implementing Open Management of Party Affairs in the Party's Grassroots Organizations"