This day, 21 June, in 1956, the Supreme People's Procuratorate of China announced that 1,017 Japanese war criminals would be exempted from prosecution and released back to Japan in batches. 45 war criminals gulty of particularly serious crimes were...
This day, 20 June, in 2016, President Xi Jinping and Polish President Andrzej Sebastian Duda jointly attended a ceremony marking the arrival of the first China-Europe Railway Express in Warsaw, Poland. Demand for freight along the route has significantly...
This day, 19 June, 1931, Pearl Buck’s novel “The Good Earth” was published. Translated in to more than 100 languages and distributed worldwide, the novel won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1932, while Buck herself won the Nobel...
This day, 18 June, in 1978, at the invitation of the Pakistani government, Vice Premier Geng Biao led a Chinese government delegation to attend the completion ceremony of the Karakoram Highway. Together, tens of thousands of engineers and labourers...
This day, 17 June, 1967, China detonated its first hydrogen bomb over the west of the country, while the government declared that China will not be the first to use nuclear weapons at any time and under any circumstances....
This day, 16 June, in 1994, the Information Office of the State Council issued a white paper entitled, “The Status of Intellectual Property Protection in China”, expounding China’s intentions to abide by relevant international conventions and bilateral agreements on...
This day, 15 June, 1951, the first Sino-foreign joint venture of the People’s Republic of China was founded. The Chinese-Polish Joint Stock Shipping Company, known as Chipolbrok, would move its headquarters from Tianjin to Shanghai in 1962 and remains...
This day, 14 June, 1987, Indian Minister of External Affairs Narayan Datt Tiwari visited China after attending the Special Conference of Non-Aligned Countries in Pyongyang. Tiwari conveyed the message from the Indian government to Chinese Acting Premier Wan Li...
