China key dates

Cards (63)

  • Constitution declared that 'all power in the people's republic belongs to the people'
    1954
  • PLA announced
    October 1949
  • PLA conscription law introduced
    1955
  • 1.3 million prisoners in Laogai
    1955
  • Storming of Lhasa during Tibet invasion
    November 1950
  • 5 antis campaign
    1952
  • 3 antis campaign
    1951
  • 100 flowers campaign
    1956
  • "Let 100 flowers bloom, let 100 schools contend"
    2nd May 1956
  • 40% of peasants in MATs
    1952
  • First commune in Henm
    July 1958
  • The great famine
    1958 - 1962
  • Sino-Mutual Assistance Treaty
    1950
  • Private sector industry abolished
    1956
  • Great leap forward / 2nd five year plan
    1958 - 1962
  • the Lushan Conference
    1959
  • China's first atomic bomb
    1964
  • Soviet citizens start leaving
    Summer 1960
  • 4 pests campaign
    March 18th 1958
  • Ministry of metallurgy claimed steel production would reach 100m
    by 1977
  • worst drought in over 100 years

    1960
  • 7000 cadres meeting with Liu's weather confession
    January 1962
  • 4 olds campaign
    1966
  • Mass rallies
    1966
  • Mao praising 'Hai Rui Dismissed From Office'
    1961
  • Mao ordering a negative review for 'Hai Rui Dismissed From Office'
    1965
  • Lao She drowns himself in Taiping lake
    1966
  • Liu Shaoqi stripped of all positions
    1969
  • Deng Xiaoping sent to Xinjian country factory
    October 1969
  • 'up to the mountains and down to the villages'
    December 1968
  • Lin Biao's death
    September 13th 1971
  • Deng re-joins Politburo as PLA chief of staff
    1975
  • Mao swims in Yangtze River
    1966
  • Public ceremonies honouring Confucius ended
    1949
  • New Marriage Law
    1950
  • 45% of primary school children were girls
    by 1978
  • PLA enlisted unmarried, educated female students aged 18-19

    1949
  • PRC standardised the phonetic alphabet Pin Yin
    1955
  • Primary school students increased from 26m to 64m
    1949 - 1957
  • Mao complains about 12 year education system
    1964