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On this Day in Chinese History; 29 February

This day, 29 February, in 1980, navigation between Shanghai and the Port of Portland in the United States was officially opened. The Port had been engaged in maritime trade with Tianjin in China and other places since the late...

On this Day in Chinese History; 26 November

This day, 26 November, in 1979, when speaking about market economies during a meeting with Encyclopedia Britannica and the Institute of East Asian Studies at McGill University in Canada, he said that the purpose of the Chinese revolution is...

On this Day in Chinese History; 5 October

This day, 5 October, in 1961, China and Nepal signed a boundary treaty in Beijing, which came immediately into effect. Based on the China-Nepal Boundary Agreement of the previous year, and in accordance with the “Five Principles of Peaceful...

On this Day in Chinese History; 4 October

This day, 4 October, in 1988, Deng Xiaoping met with Helmut Schmidt, former German Chancellor. When Deng talked about what new order and principles could replace international relations, he said, “As far as my personal knowledge goes, what can...

On this Day in Chinese History; 3 October

This day, 3 October, in 2018, China signed the International Agreement to Prevent Unregulated Fishing in the High Seas of the Central Arctic Ocean. The State Council would go on to approve the Agreement, depositing the approval with Canada,...

On this Day in Chinese History; 2 October

This day, 2 October, in 1949, with a visiting Soviet and Korean delegation in attendance as witness, China in Beijing adopted the “Declaration of China’s Conference to Defend World Peace”, solemnly declaring to the world that the Chinese people...

On this Day in Chinese History; 1 October

This day, 1 October, in 2020, President Xi Jinping delivered an important speech via video at the High-level Meeting of the United Nations General Assembly commemorating the 25th anniversary of the World Conference on Women in Beijing, comprising a...

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