This day, 4 April, in 1985, Queen Elizabeth of the United Kingdom signed the Hong Kong Act 1985 to return the territory to Chinese sovereignty. The Act in part stated, “As from 1 July 1997, Her Majesty shall no...
This day, 3 April, in 1949, the First Congress of Chinese Women held in Beijing officially announced the establishment of the All-China Democratic Women’s Federation, with He Xiangning elected as Honorary Chairperson, Cai Chang as Chairperson, and Deng Yingchao,...
This day, 2 April, 1999, the Beijing No. 1 Intermediate People’s Court sentenced Ma Ke and Jiang Tao, the murderers who robbed and killed Zou Jingmeng, Member of the Standing Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s...
This day, 31 March, 1989, the Chinese Navy’s first Type 679 ocean-going training ship “Zheng He” with global navigation capabilities set sail from Qingdao for a visit to Hawaii in the United States. As the “Zheng He” crossed the...
This day, 30 March, in 1973, the Chinese government appointed Huang Zhen as director of the Liaison Office in the United States. A participant in the Long March, after the founding of the People’s Republic of China, Huang was...
This day, 29 March, in 1970, Anna Louise Strong passed away in Beijing. In addition to her reporting, the American journalist had been a keen supporter of the communist movements of both China and the Soviet Union. An interview...
This day, 28 March, 1905, Huang Zunxian, a reformist diplomat and poet of the late Qing Dynasty, passed away. Most of Huang’s poems related to world affairs of the time, while in one he used the Chinese words, “文明”,...
This day, 27 March, in 2017, during Premier Li Keqiang’s visit to New Zealand, China and New Zealand signed the “Memorandum of Arrangement between the Government of the People’s Republic of China and the Government of New Zealand on...
