April 14, 1927: The Executive Committee of the Communist International issues a "message to the proletariat, the peasants and the oppressed peoples all over the world on Chiang Kai-shek's counter-revolutionary coup"
April 14—15, 2006: The Cross-straits Economic and Trade Forum is held in Beijing
April 14, 2009: The State Council issues "suggestions on promoting Shanghai and how to develop within it a modern service industry, advanced manufacturing, an international financial center and an international shipping center"
April 14, 2010: An earthquake of magnitude 7.1 occurs in Yushu in Qinghai province
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)