July 16—23, 1922: The Second National Congress of the CPC is held in Shanghai
July 16, 1960: The Soviet Union suddenly decides to recall all Soviet experts in China
July 16, 1961: The CPC Central Committee issues a "Decision on Strengthening Nuclear Industry Construction"
July 16—21, 1977: The Third Plenary Session of the 10th CPC Central Committee is held in Beijing
July 16, 1986: The CPC Central Committee approves a "Report on the Principles and Tasks of Democratic Parties in the New Period"
July 16, 2002: Jiang Zemin proposes five requirements to strengthen the Philosophy Social Science Building while inspecting the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
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)