Beijing: Here are the key dates in China since the founding of the Communist Party (CCP), which became one of the most powerful political organizations in the world:
In the summer of 1921, Mao Zedong And in Shanghai, a group of Marxist-Leninist thinkers secretly founded the party and began to establish labor unions in Chinese cities.
In 1924 the CCP joined with the Nationalist Party, or Kuomintang (KMT), which came to power in mainland China three years later.
But the KMT turns violently against the communists and kicks them out of Shanghai. Mao And many CCP members move to rural areas, where they get the support of farmers.
In 1931, imperialist Japan invaded Manchuria before World War II, before a full-scale invasion of mainland China in 1937, which Japan eventually defeated.
The CCP got strength by fighting the Japanese.
One war ends but another is raging. Communists and nationalists, led by Chiang Kai-shek, fight a full-scale civil war after World War II.
Taking power in Beijing in 1949, the Communists defeated the Nationalists. The KMT fled to Taiwan, formed its own government and cut off contact with mainland China.
Party chairman Mao proclaimed the People’s Republic of China on 1 October 1949.
In the Hundred Flowers campaign of 1956–1957, Mao urged intellectuals to criticize the Communist Party, but later sent 500,000 of the speakers to labor camps.
Mao envisions the Great Leap Forward to overhaul the agricultural economy through industrialization and collective farming.
This results in a three-year famine, in which 45 million people die.
Beijing sends troops to quell a rebellion against Chinese rule in Tibet, whose spiritual leader the Dalai Lama flees to India.
China conducted its first nuclear weapons test.
Mao launched the decades-old Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution to purge the bourgeoisie and create social equality – but also to remove his political rivals.
The armies of the young Red Guards target anyone considered part of the bourgeoisie, including intellectuals. Millions of people are persecuted, imprisoned or killed.
Feather United NationsBeijing takes the seat of China which was previously held by Taipei.
It becomes one of five countries to have a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council.
Mao died in September 1976, and the following month, the “Gang of Four”—the powerful party members who directed his Cultural Revolution—were arrested. Among them is his wife.
Accused of being “anti-party and anti-social”, he is sentenced to a long prison term.
The party reaffirms the “reform and openness” policy led by Supreme Leader Deng Xiaoping. It takes the economy away from the control of the state and lays the foundation for rapid growth.
Soldiers opened fire on students protesting peacefully for democracy in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square.
The death toll is estimated to be several hundred to over a thousand.
Britain returns Hong Kong to China at the end of a 99-year lease, pledging that the global financial hub will maintain a high degree of autonomy for 50 years.
China joined the World Trade Organization and two years later sent its first human into space. In 2010, it overtook Japan as the world’s second largest economy after the United States.
Hu Jintao stepped down as CCP leader after a period of record economic growth and greater openness driven by the Internet. is replaced by Xi Jinping,
China’s parliament abolished the 10-year limit for the presidency and added Xi’s name to the constitution, increasing the authority of the country’s most powerful leader since Mao.
The United Nations accused China of detaining more than one million Uighurs and other Muslim minorities in camps in 2018.
Chinese officials later described the facilities as “vocational education centers” used to curb separatist sentiments and religious extremism.
A UN report in August 2022 cited possible crimes against humanity in the Xinjiang region.
The world’s first cases of Kovid were reported in the central city of Wuhan. China responds with stringent lockdowns that virtually extinguished the coronavirus inside the country, giving rise to its zero-Covid strategy that has remained in place to this day.
In 2020, China imposed a tough national security law on Hong Kong in response to pro-democracy protests that erupted a year earlier.
A clampdown is overseen by the then chief of security john lee, In May 2022, he was appointed to rule the city in a selection process where he faced no rivals.
In the summer of 1921, Mao Zedong And in Shanghai, a group of Marxist-Leninist thinkers secretly founded the party and began to establish labor unions in Chinese cities.
In 1924 the CCP joined with the Nationalist Party, or Kuomintang (KMT), which came to power in mainland China three years later.
But the KMT turns violently against the communists and kicks them out of Shanghai. Mao And many CCP members move to rural areas, where they get the support of farmers.
In 1931, imperialist Japan invaded Manchuria before World War II, before a full-scale invasion of mainland China in 1937, which Japan eventually defeated.
The CCP got strength by fighting the Japanese.
One war ends but another is raging. Communists and nationalists, led by Chiang Kai-shek, fight a full-scale civil war after World War II.
Taking power in Beijing in 1949, the Communists defeated the Nationalists. The KMT fled to Taiwan, formed its own government and cut off contact with mainland China.
Party chairman Mao proclaimed the People’s Republic of China on 1 October 1949.
In the Hundred Flowers campaign of 1956–1957, Mao urged intellectuals to criticize the Communist Party, but later sent 500,000 of the speakers to labor camps.
Mao envisions the Great Leap Forward to overhaul the agricultural economy through industrialization and collective farming.
This results in a three-year famine, in which 45 million people die.
Beijing sends troops to quell a rebellion against Chinese rule in Tibet, whose spiritual leader the Dalai Lama flees to India.
China conducted its first nuclear weapons test.
Mao launched the decades-old Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution to purge the bourgeoisie and create social equality – but also to remove his political rivals.
The armies of the young Red Guards target anyone considered part of the bourgeoisie, including intellectuals. Millions of people are persecuted, imprisoned or killed.
Feather United NationsBeijing takes the seat of China which was previously held by Taipei.
It becomes one of five countries to have a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council.
Mao died in September 1976, and the following month, the “Gang of Four”—the powerful party members who directed his Cultural Revolution—were arrested. Among them is his wife.
Accused of being “anti-party and anti-social”, he is sentenced to a long prison term.
The party reaffirms the “reform and openness” policy led by Supreme Leader Deng Xiaoping. It takes the economy away from the control of the state and lays the foundation for rapid growth.
Soldiers opened fire on students protesting peacefully for democracy in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square.
The death toll is estimated to be several hundred to over a thousand.
Britain returns Hong Kong to China at the end of a 99-year lease, pledging that the global financial hub will maintain a high degree of autonomy for 50 years.
China joined the World Trade Organization and two years later sent its first human into space. In 2010, it overtook Japan as the world’s second largest economy after the United States.
Hu Jintao stepped down as CCP leader after a period of record economic growth and greater openness driven by the Internet. is replaced by Xi Jinping,
China’s parliament abolished the 10-year limit for the presidency and added Xi’s name to the constitution, increasing the authority of the country’s most powerful leader since Mao.
The United Nations accused China of detaining more than one million Uighurs and other Muslim minorities in camps in 2018.
Chinese officials later described the facilities as “vocational education centers” used to curb separatist sentiments and religious extremism.
A UN report in August 2022 cited possible crimes against humanity in the Xinjiang region.
The world’s first cases of Kovid were reported in the central city of Wuhan. China responds with stringent lockdowns that virtually extinguished the coronavirus inside the country, giving rise to its zero-Covid strategy that has remained in place to this day.
In 2020, China imposed a tough national security law on Hong Kong in response to pro-democracy protests that erupted a year earlier.
A clampdown is overseen by the then chief of security john lee, In May 2022, he was appointed to rule the city in a selection process where he faced no rivals.