This day, 10 November, in 1987, French President François Mitterrand hosted a banquet to welcome Chinese President Li Xiannian, who was paying the first visit to France by a Chinese head of state. During ther time together, Li and...
This day, 9 November, in 1970, President Charles de Gaulle of the French Republic passed away. During his administration, de Gaulle pursued an independent foreign policy and actively developed relations with third world countries, recognising the People’s Republic of...
This day, 8 November, in 1949, during the founding conference of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China, Zhou Enlai delivered a speech in which he said, “Diplomacy is the same as the army; it is...
This day, 7 November, in 1944, Patrick J. Hurley, U.S. presidential envoy and U.S. Ambassador designate to China, flew to Yan’an, where he was greeted by Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai and other CCP leaders. Talks later that day were...
This day, 6 November, in 1995, Professor Wang Xuan, Dean of the Peking University Founder Technology College, won the year’s “UNESCO Science Prize”, prompting that organisation to point out that the Chinese computer phototypesetting system developed under the leadership...
This day, 5 November, in 1991, a high-level Vietnamese delegation paid an official visit to China, leading to the issue of a joint communiqué announcing the normalisation of relations between the two countries. Both sides agreed that in the...
This day, 4 November, in 1972, a grand acceptance ceremony was held in Tokyo’s Ueno Park to welcome Kang Kang and Lan Lan, a pair of giant pandas from the Beijing Zoo, to settle in Japan. The senior Japanese...
This day, 3 November, in 1987, UNESCO presented an award to Yuan Longping at its Paris headquarters in recognition of his cultivating high-yield hybrid rice. The “UNESCO Science Prize” was established in 1968 and is awarded every 2 years...
