This day, 11 July, in 1405, Zheng He set sail from Nanjing on the first of seven voyages that would go as far as Africa. These southwestward voyages raised the international reputation of the Ming Dynasty, broadened the horizons...
This day, 10 July, 1929, the Chinese Eastern Railway Incident broke out. On that day, Zhang Xueliang took over the jurisdiction of the Chinese Eastern Railway by force, dismissed the Soviet personnel from the railway management and deported them,...
This day, 9 July, in 1971, then US National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger feigned illness while in Pakistan to make a 48-hour secret visit to China. There, Premier Zhou Enlai and Kissinger held talks for 11 hours, reaching an...
This day, 8 July, in 1994, DPRK Chairman Kim Il Sung passed away. The condolence message from China read, “Comrade Kim Il Sung always enthusiastically maintained and developed the traditional friendship between the Chinese and Korean peoples. The deep...
This day, 7 July, 2012, the first Tsinghua University “World Peace Forum” was held in Beijing. Attended by China’s then Vice President Xi Jinping and former Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, together with the former leaders of many other...
This day, 6 July in 2020, Zhang Jun, China’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, deposited China’s instrument of accession to the Arms Trade Treaty with UN Secretary General António Guterres, which was an important measure for China to...
This day, 5 July, 2000, the heads of state of China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan met in Dushanbe, and jointly signed the Dushanbe Declaration, reaffirming they would continue to further develop cooperation within the framework of the “Shanghai...
This day, 4 July, in 1998, the China-Kazakhstan border became the first undisputed border between China and the Commonwealth of Independent States, as Chinese President Jiang Zemin paid a working visit to the Republic of Kazakhstan, where he and...
