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Jan 9,1940: Mao Zedong makes a speech on "New Democracy"

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Updated: 2011-03-25 16:38

Jan 9, 1940: Mao Zedong makes a speech on "New Democracy"

On Jan 9, 1940 Mao Zedong made a speech titled "Politics and Culture of New Democracy" at the First Congress of Cultural Association in Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia border region, proposing a complete theory of New Democracy. Mao Zedong put forward the issue of "which way will China go?" in his speech at the outset and made a clear answer: "We want to build a new China". He said: "We Communists, for many years, have not only fought for China's political and economic revolution, but also struggled for China's Cultural Revolution; all of these aims are to build a new society and new Chinese nation-state".

Jan 9, 1958: The "Ordinance of Chinese Household Registration" is promulgated

The Ordinance was passed by the 91st meeting of National People's Congress Standing Committee, ordaining that the ordinance shall come into force from the date of its publication. It provides that registration work is managed by public security organs at all levels. This was a fairly complete household registration system, including registration of permanent population, registration of temporary residents, birth registration, death registration, immigration registration, emigration registration, and change registration. The task of household management is to prove citizenship, maintain public order, and serve the construction of a socialist society. The legal form of the Ordinance further standardizes the country's household registration management system. It is an important symbol of the official formation of a unified household registration system in rural and urban areas and an important milestone of contemporary Chinese household registration system.

Jan 9, 2009: The 2008 state science and technology awarding meeting is held in Beijing

Hu Jintao, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, President and CMC Chairman, awarded Wang Zhongcheng (Academician of Chinese academy of engineering) and Xu Guangxian (Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences) the highest prize in the meeting.