Today in History
May 5—23,1958: The 2nd Session of the 8th CPC Party Congress is held
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Updated: 2011-05-05 15:32
May 5—10, 1922: The Chinese Socialist Youth League holds its first congress in Guangzhou
May 5, 1924: Students start their first semester at the Whampoa Military Academy
May 5—23, 1958: The Second Session of the Eighth CPC Party Congress is held in Beijing
May 5, 1986: The Chinese versions of the 50 volumes of "The Complete Works of Marx and Engels" are all published
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)