This day, 18 December, in 1970, on the 31st anniversary of the publication of the Chinese translation of “Red Star Shines Over China”, Chairman Mao Zedong cordially received the author of the book, American writer Edgar Snow, in recognition...
This day, 17 December, in 1992, President of the Russian Federation Boris Yeltsin paid an official goodwill visit to China. During the meeting, President Yeltsin commented that China-Russia relations have huge potential and broad space for development, while China...
This day, 16 December, in 1949, Mao Zedong, Chairman of the Central Committee of the CCP and Chairman of PRC, visited the Soviet Union in what was the first overseas visit by a leader of the New China. During...
This day, 14 December, in 1963, Premier Zhou Enlai began his famous “Asia Africa 14 Country Tour”, visiting Egypt, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Ghana, Mali, Guinea, Sudan, Ethiopia and Somalia, as well as Albania, Myanmar, Pakistan and Ceylon (now Sri...
This day, 13 December, in 1937, saw the start of the Nanjing Massacre, as the Japanese army took the city following their earlier capture of Shanghai. No less than 300,000 Chinese civilians were killed, many of them brutally and...
This day, 12 December, in 1946, in accordance with the Cairo Declaration and the Potsdam Proclamation, the Chinese Navy dispatched two warships, the “Taiping” and the “Zhongye”, to declare sovereignty over the Nansha Islands. After sailors and marines landed,...
This day, 11 December, in 1991, Premier Li Peng paid an official goodwill visit to India. Speaking with the Hindustan Times before leaving, Li said that in the then current volatile international situation, a heads of government meeting to...
This day, 10 December, in 1931, the League of Nations Council passed a resolution to send a survey team to Northeast China to investigate the issue of Japanese armed invasion. Headed by British politician Victor Bulwer-Lytton, the survey’s conclusions...
