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May 31, 1936: The National All Salvation Association is established in Shanghai
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Updated: 2011-05-31 15:53
May 31, 1936: The National All Salvation Association is established in Shanghai
May 31, 1940: Chen Jiageng leads the Nanyang Overseas Chinese Visitation to Yan'an to comfort the military and civilians in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region
May 31, 1966: With the approval of Mao Zedong, Chen Boda leads a working group to seize power from People's Daily to control the daily newspaper layout
May 31, 1989: Deng Xiaoping points out that the policy of reform and opening-up should be unchanged for decades
May 31, 2002: Jiang Zemin emphasizes that "The Thought of Three Represents" is the foundation for building the Party, the cornerstone of Party governance and the source of Party strength
May 31, 2007: The General Office of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council establish the State Corruption Prevention Department
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)