This day, 20 October, in 1996, President Ernesto Samper of the Republic of Colombia paid a state visit to China, the first by a Colombian head of state. During the visit, President Jiang Zemin said that the Chinese government...
This day, 19 October, in 1954, Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru, visited the New China, accompanied by his daughter and future Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi. During discussions, Chairman Mao Zedong expressed his appreciation for India’s refusal to participate...
This day, 18 October, in 1956, Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy became the first Pakistani Prime Minister to visit China. Meeting with Mao Zedeng, Zhou Enlai and others, both sides reaffirmed their confidence in the resolutions of the Bandung Conference and...
This day, 17 October, in 1980, Deng Xiaoping met with French President, Giscard d'Estaing. Deng Xiaoping said that the “multipolar politics” proposed by d'Estaing is an objective reality. Multipolarity requires unity. There is no leader or treaty, but rather...
This day, 16 October, in 1964, China successfully detonated its first atomic bomb. That same day, the Chinese government stated its advocation for the complete prohibition and thorough destruction of nuclear weapons; China develops such for defence and to...
This day, 15 October, in 1979, Deng Xiaoping met with a delegation of British celebrities led by Felix Green and accepted a television interview, in which he said, “We hope that a few years from now, not too long...
This day, 14 October, in 1992, the National Copyright Administration of China announced that China had become the 93rd member state of the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, entering effect in China the following...
This day, 13 October, in 2019, during President Xi Jinping’s state visit to Nepal, the two countries issued the “Joint Statement of the People’s Republic of China and Nepal”, elevating the relationship between the two countries to a strategic...
Shanghai-Nanjing Innovation Belt emerges, with Putuo District driving cross-regional collaboration to boost economic growth for 50+ million people
Putuo officials...