This day, 4 May, 1919, students from Peking University and more than a dozen schools gathered to demonstrate in front of Tiananmen Square. Their march angrily protested the transfer of Germany’s original rights and interests in Shandong to Japan...
This day, 3 May, in 1946, the International Military Tribunal for the Far East convened in Tokyo. Lasting 2 and a half years, its verdict revealed the crimes of Japanese imperialism in planning, preparing and launching atrocities on China,...
This day, 2 May, 1895, political thinker and reformer Kang Youwei gathered over 1,000 Imperial Examination candidates in Beijing to jointly submit a letter requesting the Qing government’s refusal to ratify the Treaty of Shimonoseki. This was the first...
This day, 1 May, in 1908, China first recognised International Labour Day. Dating back to 1889, the Day is the result of the Marxist International Socialist Congress’ meeting in Paris, during which they adopted a resolution in support of...
This day, 29 February, in 1980, navigation between Shanghai and the Port of Portland in the United States was officially opened. The Port had been engaged in maritime trade with Tianjin in China and other places since the late...
This day, 26 November, in 1979, when speaking about market economies during a meeting with Encyclopedia Britannica and the Institute of East Asian Studies at McGill University in Canada, he said that the purpose of the Chinese revolution is...
This day, 5 October, in 1961, China and Nepal signed a boundary treaty in Beijing, which came immediately into effect. Based on the China-Nepal Boundary Agreement of the previous year, and in accordance with the “Five Principles of Peaceful...
This day, 4 October, in 1988, Deng Xiaoping met with Helmut Schmidt, former German Chancellor. When Deng talked about what new order and principles could replace international relations, he said, “As far as my personal knowledge goes, what can...
