April 9, 1936: Zhou Enlai and Li Kenong hold talks with Zhang Xueliang in Yan'an
April 9—13, 2004: President Hu Jintao goes to Shaanxi to do research on promoting western development and also to address the issues of "agriculture, countryside and farmers"
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.
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)