Aug 12, 1949: The Xinhua News Agency publishes a comment entitled "Helpless Written Confession" in response to a white paper called "Sino-US Relationship" issued by the US State Department
Aug 12—18, 1977: The 11th National Congress of the CPC is held in Beijing
Aug 12, 1978: The "China-Japan Peace and Friendship Treaty" is signed in Beijing
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)