Today in History
March 31, 2008: Olympics torch relay ceremony is held in Beijing
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Updated: 2011-04-01 14:09
March 31, 1955: The National Congress of the CPC passes a resolution to establish the Central and local monitoring committee of the Party with Dong Biwu as secretary
March 31, 1982: The CPC Central Committee issues the "basic ideas and policies on religious issues during the socialist period in China"
March 31, 2008: Olympics torch relay ceremony is held in Beijing
On March 31, 2008, a ceremony to launch the torch relay preceding the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games was held in Tiananmen Square. President Hu Jintao personally lit the flame in a special cauldron during the ceremony and announced the start of the torch relay of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.
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)