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March 21, 1927: Shanghai workers hold the third armed uprising
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Updated: 2011-03-21 09:39
March 21, 1927: Shanghai workers hold the third armed uprising
March 21, 1948: To achieve victory in the Liberation War, Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai and Ren Bishi head the leading organs of the CPCC Central Committee from Yangjiagou village in Mizhi county in northern Shaanxi and cross the Yellow River eastward
March 21—31, 1955: The National Conference of the Communist Party of China is held in Beijing
Mao Zedong made a speech at the meeting, proposing to catch up economically with the most powerful capitalist countries of the previous decades.
CPC Heroes
Zhu De
Zhu De, born in Yilong County of Sichuan Province in 1886 and passed away in 1976, is a great Marxist, proletarian revolutionary, statesman and military strategist.
Chen Yi
A native of Le Zhi, in Southwest China's Sichuan Province, and awarded by the People's Republic of China the military rank of marshal; Served as the country's Vice Premier (1954-1972) and Foreign Minister (1958-1972)