This day, 7 November, in 1944, Patrick J. Hurley, U.S. presidential envoy and U.S. Ambassador designate to China, flew to Yan’an, where he was greeted by Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai and other CCP leaders. Talks later that day were...
This day, 6 November, in 1995, Professor Wang Xuan, Dean of the Peking University Founder Technology College, won the year’s “UNESCO Science Prize”, prompting that organisation to point out that the Chinese computer phototypesetting system developed under the leadership...
This day, 5 November, in 1991, a high-level Vietnamese delegation paid an official visit to China, leading to the issue of a joint communiqué announcing the normalisation of relations between the two countries. Both sides agreed that in the...
This day, 4 November, in 1972, a grand acceptance ceremony was held in Tokyo’s Ueno Park to welcome Kang Kang and Lan Lan, a pair of giant pandas from the Beijing Zoo, to settle in Japan. The senior Japanese...
This day, 3 November, in 1987, UNESCO presented an award to Yuan Longping at its Paris headquarters in recognition of his cultivating high-yield hybrid rice. The “UNESCO Science Prize” was established in 1968 and is awarded every 2 years...
This day, 2 November, in 2017, the concept of, “Building a community with a shared future for mankind”, proposed by China, was included in the “Further Practical Measures for the Prevention of an Arms Race in Outer Space”, and,...
This day, 1 November, in 1991, the Chinese government published a white paper entitled, “The Human Rights Situation in China”, in which it was pointed out that since countries have huge differences in their historical backgrounds, social systems, cultural...
This day, 31 October, in 2022, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and President, Xi Jinping, held a ceremony to award the “Medal of Friendship” of the People’s Republic of China to General...
