Milestones

Milestones: 1953

(China Daily)
Updated: 2009-09-30 05:12

Milestones: 1953
Hua Tianyou (right), professor at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, sculpts the May 4 Movement of 1919, a relief on the Monument to the People's Heroes, in Beijing in June 1953. Mao Songyou

-- China drafts its first Five-Year Plan, which projects the country's industrialization. It specifies 156 projects covering iron and steel, automobile, airplane, shipping, machinery, nuclear energy and chemical industries.

-- The Korean War Armistice Agreement is signed on July 27, seeking to "ensure a complete cessation of hostilities and of all acts of armed force" on the Korean Peninsula.

Milestones: 1953

 

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