Today in History

August 2—16, 1959: The Eighth Plenary Session of the Eighth CPC Central Committee is held

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August 2, 1923: The Central Political Bureau of the Russian Communist Party (Bolshevik) appoints Borodin as Sun Yat-sen's political adviser

August 2—16, 1959: The Eighth Plenary Session of the Eighth CPC Central Committee is held at Lushan Mountain

August 2—7, 1980: The CPC Central Committee holds a national conference on labor and employment in Beijing
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)

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