Today in History
June 2, 1949: The People's Liberation Army captures Chongming Island
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Updated: 2011-06-03 17:55
June 2, 1949: The People's Liberation Army captures Chongming Island, which marks the end of the Beijing-Shanghai-Hangzhou campaign
June 2, 1958: The CPC Central Committee issues "Provisions on the Decentralization of Enterprises, Institutions and Technology"
June 2, 1968: The CPC Central Committee issues a "Notice on the Assignment of Graduates in Universities and Colleges in 1967"
June 2, 1996: The second-phase of the main project of the Taishan Nuclear Power Station begins
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)