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On this Day in Chinese History; 2 April

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...

On this Day in Chinese History; 31 March

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...

On this Day in Chinese History; 30 March

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...

On this Day in Chinese History; 29 March

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...

On this Day in Chinese History; 28 March

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”,...

On this Day in Chinese History; 27 March

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...

On this Day in Chinese History; 26 March

This day, 26 March, 1987, the governments of China and Portugal initialed the “Joint Statement on the Question of Macau”, which stated that the government of the People’s Republic of China will resume the exercise of sovereignty over Macau...

On this Day in Chinese History; 25 March

This day, 25 March, in 2018, Kim Jong Un, General Secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea and President of the State Affairs of North Korea, paid an unofficial visit to China. In Beijing, Kim met for the historic...

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