Today in History
April 8—11,1996: Expanding the reform pilot of the national workers' health insurance system
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Updated: 2011-04-07 16:22
April 8, 1946: The "April 8th Martyrs" are killed in an airplane crash
On 8 April 1946 the communist leaders, Wang Ruofei, Bo Gu, Ye Ting and Deng Fa were killed in an airplane crash and subsequently there was a commemorative meeting held in Yan'an.
April 8—11, 1996: The State Council holds a working conference in Zhen Jiang on expanding the reform pilot of the national workers' health insurance system
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)