China key dates

• 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