This day, 16 April, in 1992, the Chinese People’s Liberation Army’s Military Engineering Brigade arrived in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, to participate in United Nations’ peacekeeping operations. The 400-strong brigade repaired Highways 4 and 6, which were severely damaged by...
This day, 14 April, 2011, the third BRICS leaders’ meeting was held in Sanya, Hainan, with Brazilian President Dilma Vana Rousseff, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and South African President Jacob Zuma in attendance. It...
This day, 13 April, 1988, the First Session of the Seventh National People’s Congress passed its decision on the establishment of Hainan Province and its resolution on the establishment of the Hainan Special Economic Zone in an effort to...
This day, 12 April, in 1847, Rong Hong arrived in New York, USA, to study. Rong (1828-1912), a Cantonese born into a poor peasant family, studied in a church primary school in Macau and the Morrison church school in...
This day, 11 April, in 1955, a bomb exploded aboard the Kashmir Princess, or Air India Flight 300, carrying a Chinese and Vietnamese delegation, together with journalists, and flying from Hong Kong to Jakarta, to participate in the Afro-Asian...
This day, 10 April, in 1971, the American table tennis delegation participating in the 31st World Table Tennis Championships in Nagoya, Japan, visited China at the invitation of the Chinese delegation. This visit opened the door on the 22...
This day, 9 April, in 1998, a naval fleet consisting of the guided-missile destroyer “Qingdao”, the training ship “Shichang” and the supply ship “Nancang” set sail from Qingdao to southern waters to participate in the celebrations of the 100th...
This day, 8 April, in 1968, China, the governments of Tanzania and Zambia signed protocols as to the construction of the Tanzania-Zambia Railway, for which the Chinese government provided interest-free loans of approximately ¥1 billion and 50,000 engineering/technical personnel....
