April 16, 1927: Zhou Enlai sends a telegram to the CPC Central Committee asking to dispatch troops to crusade against Chiang Kai-shek
April 16, 1950: The People's Liberation Army launches a massive campaign to fight a fierce battle with the Kuomintang Army at sea
April 16—25, 1984: The State Economic Restructuring Commission holds a working conference on a city economic reform pilot project in Changzhou
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)