The Common Program of the People's Republic of China 1949-1954

Timeline 1949

Date Event
January
 Li Lisan, Zhou Baozhong, Choi Yong-kon & SU advisors meet in Harbin on Korean troops
1-1-1949
PLA Beijing district military controlling committee is established 
                                        
1-1-1949
 CC adopts a resolution to establish the NDYL on a national basis
2-1-1949
 
3-1-1949
 Beginning of the PLA Tianjin campaign 
4-1-1949
 NCPG announces a ban on the activities of popular sects and secret societies 
4-1-1949
 RMRB "on agrarian taxes"
5-1-1949
 Mao "On the war criminal suing for peace"
5-1-1949
 Chen Yun Speech at the Shenyang workers conference
6-1-1949
 Stalin sends telegram to Mao on coalition government
6-1-1949
 PB meeting on foreign relations
6-1-1949
 UN General Assembly supported non-intervention in the Chinese Civil War
7-1-1949
 
8-1-1949
 PB meeting
8-1-1949
 Mao thanks Stalin for sending Kovalev 
8-1-1949
 Jiang Jieshi appeals to US, SU, GB and France to mediate peace. They refuse
9-1-1949
 Administrative Council of the CPGC formally organized
10-1-1949
 PLA Huai-Hai Campaign ends. It started on 6 November 1948
10-1-1949
 Intense telegram communication between Stalin and Mao
11-1-1949
 Surrender talks between GMD& CCP begin. 
12-1-1949
 US refuse mediation
13-1-1949
 Mao refuses SU mediation
14-1-1949
 Mao sends Stalin telegram on peace talks
14-1-1949
 Mao "Statement on the present situation"
15-1-1949
 PLA under command of Lin Biao conquers Tianjin 
15-1-1949
 PLA is reorganized into 4 field armies
15-1-1949
 Local militias, as "self-defence corps" (ziweituan) and "landlord troops" (huanxiangtuan) are forbidden
16-1-1949
 
17-1-1949
 Mao sends telegram to Stalin. He will not go to Moscow and invites SU delegation
18-1-1949
 SU refuses to mediate between CCP and GMD
19-1-1949
 GMD government offers peace talks
19-1-1949
 CC issues "instructions on diplomatic affairs"
20-1-1949
 
21-1-1949
 Jiang Jieshi retires as president and hands over to commander Li Zongren.
21-1-1949
 Mao 'comment.. on the resolution of the Nanking executive yuan'
22-1-1949
 GMD Beijing commander Fu Zuoyi agrees to withdraw from the city after talks with Lin Biao
22-1-1949
 The GMD Air Force abondones the war and flew to Taiwan
23-1-1949
 PLA begins their advance on Nanjing.   
24-1-1949
 
25-1-1949
 PLA  captures Yangzhou
26-1-1949
 Mikoyan, SU politburo member, leaves Moscow on secret mission to Xibaipo
27-1-1949
 
28-1-1949
 Mao "On ordering the reactionary GMD Government to re-arrest Yasuji Okamura"
29-1-1949
 
30-1-1949
 Mikoyan arrives in Xibaipo and has 1st conversations with Mao
31-1-1949
 Mao's 2nd talk with Mikoyan
31-1-1949
 The peaceful liberation of Beijing is proclaimed. End of Ping-jin (平津) campaign (17 november 1948)
February
Cable from Stalin to Mikoyan
1-2-1949
GMD central Party section moves from Nanjing to Guangzhou
1-2-1949
Zhou talks with Mikoyan
2-2-1949
 
3-2-1949
PLA units march into the city of Beijing
3-2-1949
7th CC 2nd plenum meets ceremonially  in a non-working session in Beijing
3-2-1949
Mao talks with Mikoyan
3-2-1949
Stalin cables MIkoyan
4-2-1949
Mao talks with Mikoyan
4-2-1949
Mikoyan cables Stalin
5-2-1949
Stalin sends Mao telegram on soviet troops
5-2-1949
Mao "On peace terms"
5-2-1949
The Central Plains Field Army of the PLA is renamed as the 2nd Field Army
5-2-1949
Mao talks with Mikoyan
6-2-1949
Mao talks with Mikoyan
7-2-1949
End of visit Mikoyan
8-2-1949
Mao "Turn the army into a working force"
9-2-1949
The East China Field Army of the PLA is renamed as the 3rd Field Army 
10-2-1949
 
11-2-1949
 
12-2-1949
CC statement "No foreign country has the right to interfere in China's internal politics"
13-2-1949
 
14-2-1949
 
15-2-1949
Mao "Why do the badly split"
16-2-1949
Mao "The GMD reactionaries turn"
16-2-1949
CC “Instructions on Problems Concerning Foreign Trade Policy,”
17-2-1949
 
18-2-1949
Mao "On GMD answers"
19-2-1949
 
20-2-1949
 
21-2-1949
Mao and Zhou  meet with Fu Zuoyi
22-2-1949
 
23-2-1949
 
24-2-1949
Mao and Zhou meet GMD representatives to work out terms for peace
25-2-1949
 
26-2-1949
 
27-2-1949
All foreign news agency and correspondents have to stop their work 
28-2-1949
CC issues the Order on the Abolition of Six Laws System of the Nationalist Party
March
 
1-3-1949
14th congress All China Student Representative Conference
2-3-1949
GMD China’s largest warship deserts
3-3-1949
Kim visits Moscow
4-3-1949
 
5-3-1949
2nd Plenum of the 7th CC
5-3-1949
Stalin meets Kim
6-3-1949
ACSF is founded     Tian Demin is chairman
7-3-1949
Stalin meets Kim
8-3-1949
National Beiping Arts College is taken over by the PLA, in November renamed National Art Academy
9-3-1949
Kim leaves SU
10-3-1949
 
11-3-1949
 
12-3-1949
 
13-3-1949
End of 2nd Plenum of the 7th CC
14-3-1949
CC prepares plans for personnel arrangements for various administrative Regions
15-3-1949
RMRB formally moves to Beijing
15-3-1949
CC lists Taiwan, followed by Tibet, as the party’s first major missions for 1950
15-3-1949
Stalin writes Chen Yun on commercial activities with capitalist countries
16-3-1949
 
17-3-1949
CMC decides to transfer personnel from NE Aviation School to form Aviation Bureau
18-3-1949
 
19-3-1949
 
20-3-1949
CC establishes the Central Commission on Finance and Economy. Chen Yun is director
21-3-1949
 
22-3-1949
 
23-3-1949
 
24-3-1949
1st national women's congress opens in Beijing
25-3-1949
The CC  and the PLA General Command are transferred from Xibaipo to Beijing
25-3-1949
Mao meets democratic personages and big parade in Beijing
26-3-1949
 
27-3-1949
 
28-3-1949
 
29-3-1949
 
30-3-1949
 
31-3-1949
Deng "Operational Plan for the Jing-Hu-Hang campaign"
April
Jiang Qing goes to Moscow to recover from illness
April
Central Film Bureau is set up.  the highest authority in charge of the entire film industry
April
Stalin sends telegram on diplomatic relations with US
April
Stalin sends telegram on loan
1-4-1949
Zhou leads formal peace talks with GMD representatives in Beijing
1-4-1949
Students killed and injured during strikes in Nanjing
2-4-1949
 
3-4-1949
The ACFDW is established
4-4-1949
Mao "Wither the Nanjing government"
4-4-1949
Nato treaty is signed
5-4-1949
 
6-4-1949
 
7-4-1949
 
8-4-1949
 
9-4-1949
Soviet economic adviser in China, Ivan Kovalev, meets Mao
10-4-1949
Liu on inspection tour in Tianjin
11-4-1949
Zhu De The domestic situation and points for attention after crossing the changjiang river
11-4-1949
NDYL National Assembly is held
12-4-1949
 
13-4-1949
CCP and the GMD Government begin peace negotiations in Beijing
14-4-1949
US extends China Aid Act of 1948
15-4-1949
GMD government rejects proposed peace terms
16-4-1949
 
17-4-1949
Zhou “Report on the Question of Peace Negotiations” 
18-4-1949
End of 1st Congress of NDYL
19-4-1949
The Amethyst Affair 
19-4-1949
US Congress allocates $275 million to GMD government & extends the Chinas Aid Act until 15-2-1950
19-4-1949
Stalin sends telegram to Mao. Reacts on Mao's request for a loan 
20-4-1949
World Congress for Peace in Paris and Prague opens     
20-4-1949
People's Bank of China introduces “parity deposit system” to stop inflation
21-4-1949
Mao orders a countrywide PLA advance "March over the Country Order"
22-4-1949
Zhou  "Unite with the Broad Masses to Advance Together
23-4-1949
PLA crosses the Yangtze River and enters Nanjing and occupies the presidential palace.
23-4-1949
creation the Northeast China Military Region Navy headquarters PLAN in Taizhou, Jiangsu Province
24-4-1949
PLA captures Taiyuan (Shanxi)
25-4-1949
Mao "Proclamation of the PLA" 8 regulations
25-4-1949
World Congress ends
26-4-1949
CMC instructions on diplomatic affairs
26-4-1949
Stalin instructs Chen Yun on handling Chinese bourgeoisie
27-4-1949
 
28-4-1949
4th Field Army declares to form the 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th Armies PLA
28-4-1949
Liu "Speech at the cadres meeting in Tianjin
28-4-1949
GB  decides to reinforce Hong Kong with “a brigade group,” the 27th Infantry Brigade (2 july 1949) 
28-4-1949
CMC Our Policy Toward Britain and American Citizens and Diplomats
28-4-1949
Kim IL visits China
29-4-1949
Shanxi province brought under PLA control as GMD garrison at Datong capitulates
30-4-1949
Mao comments on the April 20 incident The Amethyst Affair 
30-4-1949
General Li Tao on foreign relations
May
 
1-5-1949
North China Military Area Command of the PLA takes Datong, Shanxi 
2-5-1949
"East China People’s Navy” is established PLAN
2-5-1949
Liu meets 128 capitalists in Tianjin
3-5-1949
PLA capture Hangzhou 
4-5-1949
ACFDY convenes in Beijing
4-5-1949
6 GMD airplanes bomb Beijing airport in the south
5-5-1949
Pan Hannian, Xu Dixin and Xia Yan leave Hongkong and go to Tianjin to work later on in Shanghai
6-5-1949
the formation of a new CCP Zhejiang provincial committee
7-5-1949
Cyclone in Hunan results in many deaths
7-5-1949
End of Liu's inspection tour Tianjin
8-5-1949
 
9-5-1949
 
10-5-1949
Mao Zedong instruct Huang Hua
11-5-1949
End of ACFDY meeting
12-5-1949
CC establishes the Central China Bureau
12-5-1949
3rd Field Army PLA starts Shanghai Campaign
12-5-1949
Mao meets Kovalev on Wang Ming & Li Lisan
13-5-1949
 
14-5-1949
US ambassador John Leighton Stuart meets Huang Hua
15-5-1949
 
16-5-1949
Wuhan falls. 
17-5-1949
Zhou "Report on problems concerning the peace talks" for the preparatory meeting
17-5-1949
PLA Xianyang Campaign starts
18-5-1949
Talks between Mao and Kim Il about military aid to Korea
19-5-1949
 
20-5-1949
Xian falls
20-5-1949
CMC issues methods on how to deal with foreign warships and ships to the Huangpu River
21-5-1949
 
22-5-1949
Nanchang, capital of Jiangxi falls
22-5-1949
PB meeting 
23-5-1949
 
24-5-1949
 
25-5-1949
Shanghai occupied. Jiang Jieshi and son fly to Taiwan
26-5-1949
Stalin sends Mao telegram on economy
27-5-1949
Shanghai falls. 
28-5-1949
First issue of Jiefang Ribao (liberation daily)  Shanghai party organ
29-5-1949
 
30-5-1949
ACFTU meeting
31-5-1949
Li Lisan "Policy towards private capital" vice chairman of the Chinese Federation of Labour.
June
Liu "guiding principles for new china's economic development"
June
Financial and Economic Committee FEC is established 
1-6-1949
ACFTU is founded
2-6-1949
Qingdao is occupied, forcing out US naval units stationed there to support GMD
2-6-1949
End Shanghai campaign
3-6-1949
 
4-6-1949
Liu "What We Are Doing Behind Enemy Lines" is published
4-6-1949
Chen YunOn the establishment of the central financial and economic commission
5-6-1949
CCP sets up the Central Broadcasting Affairs Office
6-6-1949
2nd meeting Huang Hua and Stuart
7-6-1949
 
8-6-1949
 
9-6-1949
 
10-6-1949
Shanghai Stock Exchange is closed
11-6-1949
CC "the disbursement of 38,000 cadres for the takeover of 9 provinces SW and NW China
12-6-1949
 
13-6-1949
 
14-6-1949
Mao answers Stalin's telegram
14-6-1949
Mao orders General Su Yu to “pay attention to studying the problem of seizing Taiwan,”
15-6-1949
1st Preparatory meeting for the CPPCC
15-6-1949
Design of the flag and insignia of the PLA 
16-6-1949
End of Xianyang campaign
16-6-1949
Guangming Ribao (The Daily Brightness) starts publication
16-6-1949
Chen Yun In memory of comrade Yan Pu
17-6-1949
 
18-6-1949
Stalin answers Mao
19-6-1949
End of Preparatory meeting for the CPPCC
19-6-1949
Chen Yun  On priveleges of relatives of communist partymembers
20-6-1949
 
21-6-1949
Liu leaves Beijing via Mukden to Dairen for his secret trip to Moscow
21-6-1949
GMD government announces a blockade of all coastal ports in the CCP “occupation zone
22-6-1949
 
23-6-1949
 
24-6-1949
21 US senators write letter to Truman urging him not to recognize Communist regime
25-6-1949
 
26-6-1949
Liu arrives in Moscow
26-6-1949
GMD blockade of Chinese ports
27-6-1949
Liu meets Stalin for one hour
28-6-1949
 
29-6-1949
 
30-6-1949
Mao "On the people's democratic dictatorship" Leaning to one side ( yi bian dao 一边倒)
July
Flooding in NE Hunan
July
PLA Public Security Army is established
1-7-1949
2-7-1949
The national assembly of literary and art workers starts meeting in Beijing
3-7-1949
4-7-1949
Liu reports to Stalin
5-7-1949
Liu talks with Kovalev
6-7-1949
Liu writes letter to Stalin
7-7-1949
Proclamation of preparatory committe of CPPCC on resistance war
7-7-1949
Liu and Gao make report on their 1st visit
8-7-1949
4th Field Army & units of the 2nd Field Army launches the PLA Hunan-Jiangxi Campaign
8-7-1949
Tibetan government expels all Chinese from their territory
9-7-1949
CCP expresses the hope to establish diplomatic ties with the US
10-7-1949
CC resolves to develop an air force
11-7-1949
Second meeting Liu and Stalin
11-7-1949
1st Field Army PLA  launches the Fufeng-Meixian Campaign
12-7-1949
 
13-7-1949
end of Fufeng-Meixian Campaign
14-7-1949
Truman concedes that international control of atomic weapons is out of the question
14-7-1949
Jiang Jieshi and son go to Guangzhou
15-7-1949
Daily Worker newspaper of the AFCTU is founded
16-7-1949
 
17-7-1949
SWB set up
18-7-1949
Telegram from Liu to Stalin
19-7-1949
Deng "Break the blockade imposed by the imperialists"
19-7-1949
 
20-7-1949
 
20-7-1949
1st issue of Women of new China is published
21-7-1949
Conference ends
21-7-1949
1st Field Army PLA launches the Longdong Chasing Battle
22-7-1949
 
23-7-1949
Revolt in Tibet against GMD 
23-7-1949
ACFTU conference starts
23-7-1949
National Literary Workers Association (later CWU) is established
23-7-1949
Chinese Music Association is founded
24-7-1949
 
25-7-1949
Stuart and Huang Hua meet
25-7-1949
Mao sends Stalin a telegram 
26-7-1949
 4th Field Army PLA starts the Southwest Jiangxi Campaign
27-7-1949
Third meeting Liu and Stalin
27-7-1949
national financial and economic conference starts. 
28-7-1949
 
29-7-1949
 
30-7-1949
a trade agreement between the SU and the Northeast government is signed
30-7-1949
British warship HMS Amethyst escapes down Yangtze River 
30-7-1949
Gao Gang leaves Moscow
31-7-1949
CC Instruction to hold Conference of Representatives from Various Sectors of Society and People’s Congress
August
4th Army’s 164th and 166th divisions, consisting of Korean soldiers are transferred to North Korea
1-8-1949
Liu Yalou, Wang Bi and Lü Liping leave Beijing for Moscow to negotiate on pilot training
2-8-1949
 
3-8-1949
Hunan is occupied
4-8-1949
2nd meeting permanent committee of the CPPCC
4-8-1949
Deng "from the crossing of the Yangtze to the capture of shanghai"
4-8-1949
Hunan's GMD leader Cheng Qian surrenders the province to the PLA
5-8-1949
Liu meets Stalin
5-8-1949
US Department of State publishes "China White Paper"     U.S. Embassy is moved to Guangzhou 
5-8-1949
Mongolian Autonomous Government is established with De Wang as president
6-8-1949
Mao instructs Peng Dehuai on his attack on Lanzhou & treatment of Tibet
7-8-1949
 
8-8-1949
 
9-8-1949
Start of PLA Lanzhou campaign
10-8-1949
 
11-8-1949
3rd Field Army PLA & troops of the Shandong MAC starts the Changshan Islands Campaign
11-8-1949
3rd Field Army PLA launches the Fuzhou Campaign
12-8-1949
 
13-8-1949
Liu, Liu Yalou & delegation meet with Vasiliyevskiy, defence minister a.o. on the air force
13-8-1949
Conference of delegates of all fields in Beijing. Mao talks
14-8-1949
Mao "Cast away illusions" US retains its diplomatic relation with the GMD government
14-8-1949
Liu leaves Moscow
14-8-1949
public security office starts. Under the direct leadership of Luo Ruiqing
15-8-1949
End of national financial and economic conference 
16-8-1949
End of ACFTU conference
17-8-1949
3rd Field Operation Army PLA occupies Fuzhou
18-8-1949
Mao "Farewell Leighton Stuart"
18-8-1949
All-China Conference of Scientific Workers holds meeting in Beijing
18-8-1949
3rd Field Army PLA starts operation at the Zhoushan Islands
18-8-1949
A preliminary agreement calling for Soviet assistance to China’s air force is signed
19-8-1949
 
20-8-1949
 
21-8-1949
the North-eastern People's Government is established
22-8-1949
1st campaign against appearance of bourgeois character in art in Shanghai begins
23-8-1949
 
24-8-1949
Jiang Jieshi flies to Chongqing
24-8-1949
All-China Conference of Scientific Workers ends
25-8-1949
Chen Yun The working class should raise its political awareness
26-8-1949
The 1st Field Operation Army PLA occupies Lanzhou (Gansu) End of Lanzhou campaign
27-8-1949
Gao Gang inaugurated as chairman of the North East Government
27-8-1949
5 delegates from Xinjiang crash in an airplane 
28-8-1949
Mao "Why is it necessary to discuss the "white papers"
29-8-1949
Liu back in Beijing
29-8-1949
SU explodes their first atomic bomb
30-8-1949
Mao "Friendship or aggression"
31-8-1949
 
September
Chinese delegation goes to SU to work out the details of establishing chines navy 
September
Chen Yun Building a new people's customs system
September
New law scchool is established in Beijing
1-9-1949
 
2-9-1949
 
3-9-1949
CCP  vows to 'liberate' Tibet
3-9-1949
Kim requests Stalin permission to attack the South 
4-9-1949
 
5-9-1949
Xining falls. Start of Ningxia campaign
5-9-1949
Campaign to Suppress Bandits in Dabieshan starts
6-9-1949
 
7-9-1949
Zhou "on the draft of the organic law on the Central People's Government of the PRC"
8-9-1949
 
9-9-1949
 
10-9-1949
 
11-9-1949
 
12-9-1949
 
13-9-1949
 
14-9-1949
 
15-9-1949
 
16-9-1949
Mao "The bankruptcy of the idealist conception of history"
17-9-1949
3rd meeting, permanent committee for New CPPCC in Beijing
18-9-1949
 
19-9-1949
3rd Field Army PLA starts the Zhangzhou-Xiamen Campaign
19-9-1949
Dong Qiwu, chairman of Suiyuan Province of GMD's Government, leads an open revolt
20-9-1949
 
21-9-1949
1st Plenary Session CPPCC Meeting
22-9-1949
 
23-9-1949
PLA Conquest of Gansu, Qinghai, and Ningxia is completed
24-9-1949
the whole of North China and Northwest China are occupied. End of PLA Ningxia campaign
24-9-1949
CCP issues directions on work staff of the old government
24-9-1949
Politburo CPSU against Korean attack 
25-9-1949
GMD  Xinjiang  troops revolt
25-9-1949
Literary Gazette organ of the FLAC starts publication
26-9-1949
27-9-1949
CAS is set up under the administration of the GAC
27-9-1949
CPPCC adopts the Organic Law
28-9-1949
Mao and Zhu De send telegram to Xinjiang government
29-9-1949
CPPCC adopts the Common Program
29-9-1949
Declaration GMD international treaties will be reconsidered, opens door to future territorial expansion
30-9-1949
End of CPPCC Meeting
30-9-1949
The Erecting Ceremony of the Monument to the People's Heroes is held at the Tiananmen 
October
PB meeting on Gao gang
1-10-1949
Mao proclaims the People's  Republic of China 
1-10-1949
Parade
1-10-1949
1st meeting of CPGC
2-10-1949
SU decides to withdraw recognition from GMD and recognizes the Communist regime
2-10-1949
PLA Guangdong Battle is launched 
2-10-1949
China Conference for Defending World Peace in Beijing is held for 2 days
3-10-1949
Bulgaria and Rumania recognize PRC
3-10-1949
1st national Xinhua conference
3-10-1949
2nd meeting CPGC
4-10-1949
Hungary and North Korea recognize PRC
4-10-1949
1st Field Army PLA start the Hexi Corridor Campaign
5-10-1949
The SSFA is established
5-10-1949
Czechoslovakia, Poland, Yugoslavia recognize PRC. June '48 SU expells Yugoslavia from Comintern
5-10-1949
Stalin signs agreement on air force aid
6-10-1949
Outer Mongolia recognizes PRC
6-10-1949
National Muslim Institute is established in Beijing
6-10-1949
Mao sends telegram to US communists
7-10-1949
First stamps issued commemorating the 1st session of the CPPCC
8-10-1949
1st Session of the first National Committee of the CPPCC
9-10-1949
CPG is organized. Ministries and commissions established
9-10-1949
End of Xinhua conference
10-10-1949
Chinese Character Reform Association holds inaugural meeting In Beijing
11-10-1949
Barter Agreement for Two Transactions SU and the North Eastern People's Government.
11-10-1949
China Trade Union holds a conference
12-10-1949
PLA begins his march into Xinjiang
12-10-1949
4th field army PLA occupies Guangzhou.
12-10-1949
US lists conditions for recognition of the PRC
12-10-1949
Mao "Letter to Feng Youlan"
13-10-1949
Children’s Corps of China (later Chinese Young Pioneers) are established
13-10-1949
4th field army PLA captures Guangzhou & taking control of the entire China-Hong Kong border
14-10-1949
first group of SU-made Yak-12 Planes are delivered by the end of 1949,  PRC  received 185 different types 
14-10-1949
Mao Preface to the victory of the new democracy in China
15-10-1949
Mao "Reply to SU ambassador"
15-10-1949
1st national public security conference
16-10-1949
Diplomatic relations with Mongolia established
16-10-1949
CPG decides to establish Renmin Universities
16-10-1949
2nd field army PLA occupies Xiamen (Amoy)
16-10-1949
Mao meets Roshchin
17-10-1949
 
18-10-1949
The People's Republic of China is formally proclaimed
18-10-1949
US Embassy is moved to Chongqing
19-10-1949
Mao meets Roshchin. Mao appoints Wang Jiaxiang in charge of relations with SU
19-10-1949
State Ethnic Affairs Commission of the GAC is formed. Li Weihan chairman
19-10-1949
3rd meeting of the CPGC
20-10-1949
People's Insurance Company of China is established
20-10-1949
Mao replies the Xinjiang government 
20-10-1949
Mao meets Roshchin. Introduction of Wang Jiaxiang
21-10-1949
End of formation CPGC
22-10-1949
Supreme People's Court and Supreme People's Procurate is established
23-10-1949
PLA starts the Quemoy (Kinmen)  (Golden Gate) island campaign
24-10-1949
Zhu De meets Roshchin
24-10-1949
Renmin Wenxue is published
24-10-1949
US consulate staff members are arrested
25-10-1949
Mao sends telegram to the insurrectionists
25-10-1949
10th Army Corps PLA division makes a landing on Quemoy Kuningtou (Jinmin)
25-10-1949
PRC recognizes GDR
25-10-1949
CMC appoints Liu Yalou as air force commander and Xiao Hua as political commissar of PLAAF
25-10-1949
North China People's Government places herself under the direct jurisdiction of Central Government
26-10-1949
Mao sends telegram "PRC Supports the Algerian People's Struggle for Liberation"
26-10-1949
Mao "Always keep to the style of Plain living and hard struggle"
26-10-1949
Stalin sends Mao a telegram on Korea. Korea is not ready
27-10-1949
Total defeat of an ill-prepared PLA attack on Quemoy island
28-10-1949
Mao "Letter to Bo Yibo"
28-10-1949
Mao thanks Stalin for Soviet plague relief
29-10-1949
 
30-10-1949
CCP Propaganda Department & Xinhua news agency sent out a circular about proper reporting
31-10-1949
Jian Qing back in Beijing
November
Panchen Lama gives Mao and Zhu De his support the CCP
November
PB meeting on landreform
November
General Press Administration & General Publication Administration are set up
November
institutions known as the "Organs of Reform through labour" are formed
1-11-1949
Southwest campaign starts
1-11-1949
Founding of the CAS  merging the Academia Sinica in Nanjing and the Beiping Academy in Beijing
2-11-1949
Tibetan Foreign Affairs Bureau writes to Mao about independence
2-11-1949
PB meeting
3-11-1949
Taktra Rimpoche declares the independence of Tibet
3-11-1949
PLA Battle of Denbu Island
4-11-1949
Soviet planes start airlift PLA troops to Xinjiang
5-11-1949
MPS is established Luo Ruiqing is the new minister
6-11-1949
7th Army Corps PLA, between 5,000 and 7,000 men, lands on Dengbu Island and are defeated
7-11-1949
Inauguration of the ministry of foreign affairs
8-11-1949
Zhu De Speech at the joint conference on water conservation in the liberated areas
8-11-1949
Chen Yun Veterans and new cadres should unite
9-11-1949
twelve GMD planes fly to Beijing and Tianjin from Hong Kong
9-11-1949
CC establish Central and local Commissions for Discipline Inspection  Zhu De 1949-1955
10-11-1949
Abolishing of the aviation bureau and Founding of the PLAAF
10-11-1949
Zhou meets Roshchin
11-11-1949
Deng "Tactics for working in the new area of Guizhou"
11-11-1949
1rst national public security conference ends 
12-11-1949
13-11-1949
Mao "Letter to Peng Dehuai"
13-11-1949
Chen Yun "Instructions on the Policy to be Adopted Against Sudden Price Increases Nationwide"
14-11-1949
2nd field army PLA captures Guiyang.  
15-11-1949
Zhou states only PRC can represent China in the UN. Zhou meets Roshchin
15-11-1949
Zhou meets Roshchin
15-11-1949
Trade Union Conference of Asian and Australasian Countries. Liu speaks
16-11-1949
Shanghai Film Studio is officially founded
16-11-1949
Nehru publicly claims Chinese 'suzerainty' over Tibet
16-11-1949
Chen Yun Some ideas on price control
17-11-1949
Zhou's telegram to Sec.-Gen. & President of the General Assembly,  On UN representation
17-11-1949
PLA Bobai Campaign starts
18-11-1949
Mao" India's Path Is Similar to That of China "
19-11-1949
 
20-11-1949
Albania recognizes PRC
21-11-1949
2nd people's congress of Beijing Municipality resolution to shut down whorehouses
21-11-1949
4th field army PLA occupies Guilin
22-11-1949
Mao writes condolence telegram to Xinjiang leaders
22-11-1949
Provisional Measures of the ACFTU for Handling Relations Between Labor and Capital
23-11-1949
Mao writes telegram to Panchen Lama
24-11-1949
1st national tax conference starts
25-11-1949
CCP urges Tibetans to revolt & claims the Panchen Lama has asked PLA troops to 'liberate' Tibet
25-11-1949
PB meeting on economy and visit to SU
26-11-1949
 
27-11-1949
GMD Government is transferred from Chongqing to Chengdu
28-11-1949
End PB Meeting
28-11-1949
Zhou declaration on GMD fleeing to foreign countries
28-11-1949
GAC Provisional measures Concerning the Appointment and Dismissal of Employees
29-11-1949
2nd field army PLA captures Chongqing. Jiang Jieshi leaves mainland
30-11-1949
 
December
Tentative Regulations Governing the Organisation of the Office of the People's Procurator-General
1-12-1949
PLA Bobai Campaign ends
1-12-1949
End of Trade Union Conference 
2-12-1949
CMC directs PLA to engage in production as well military duties
2-12-1949
Inner Mongolian Autonomous Government changes to IM Autonomous Region.
2-12-1949
4th meeting CPGC adopts the state budget for 1950
2-12-1949
GACRegulations for the Organisation of the Conferences of Representatives of All Circles …
2-12-1949
People’s Victory Public Bond, Convertible-in-Kind are issued
2-12-1949
Liu Bocheng is appointed chairman SWB
2-12-1949
GAC decides to set up six Regional military and political committees. 
3-12-1949
Campaign to Suppress Bandits in Lianyang 
4-12-1949
4th field army PLA occupies Nanning
4-12-1949
Mao "Instruction on the Army's Participation in Production and Construction Work in 1950 
5-12-1949
Mao leaves Beijing by train
5-12-1949
PLA  occupies Hanzhong.  At this point, all five northwestern provinces are in the hands of PLA
6-12-1949
GMD government moves from the mainland to Taiwan
6-12-1949
GMD revolt in Yunnan-Sichuan starts
7-12-1949
UN condemns SU threat to the political independence and territorial integrity of PRC 
7-12-1949
Ministry of Education issues a directive to organize "Winter School Committees"
7-12-1949
Zhou sends telegram to Xinjiang about US representatives
8-12-1949
GMD revolt in Yunnan-Sichuan
9-12-1949
Jiang Jieshi leaves Chengdu for Taiwan
9-12-1949
GAC Provisional Measures the Unified Release of Important News of the CPGG&its Subordinate Organs
9-12-1949
Zhou talks with SU representative P. A. Shibaev
10-12-1949
Begin of Asian Women' Congress in Beijing.
10-12-1949
GACProvisional Regulations Concerning Unified Release of Important News Items by the CPG.
10-12-1949
PRC signs several laws of armed conflicts Geneva Convention
10-12-1949
End of tax conference
11-12-1949
 
12-12-1949
 
13-12-1949
 
14-12-1949
 
15-12-1949
Chinese people's institute of foreign affairs is founded
16-12-1949
Mao talks with Stalin
16-12-1949
PLA troops reach Vietnam border
16-12-1949
Chen YunPlans for the issuance of government bonds and bank notes
16-12-1949
End of Asian Women Congress
16-12-1949
GAC 11th session passes "Organic Law of the New Regional Government Councils"
16-12-1949
Burma recognizes PRC
16-12-1949
The People's Government of Xinjiang Province is established
17-12-1949
Chen Yun Telegram to comrade Manyinchu on aviation
17-12-1949
PLA Battle of Jianmenguan starts
18-12-1949
PLA Battle of Jianmenguan ends
18-12-1949
Mao sends telegram to Liu
18-12-1949
Mao sends telegram to Lin Biao on Hainan
19-12-1949
Mao sends telegram to Liu and Zhou about Burma
19-12-1949
US Embassy is moved to Taipei
20-12-1949
Mao and Kovalev talk
21-12-1949
Mao congratulates Stalin on his birthday
21-12-1949
National Agricultural Production Conference starts
22-12-1949
National Educational Work Conference convenes
22-12-1949
Mao sends telegram to CC on foreign relations
22-12-1949
Zhou on national economy
23-12-1949
GAC 12th session on holidays and  anniversaries 
24-12-1949
PB meeting
24-12-1949
Mao meets Stalin
25-12-1949
Kovalev reports on situation in China
25-12-1949
Chen Yun Technical personnel are indispensable for china's industralization
25-12-1949
GAC Measures for enforcement of monetary control
26-12-1949
GMD revolt in Yunnan-Sichuan crushed
27-12-1949
2nd field army PLA captures Chengdu
27-12-1949
 
28-12-1949
Chen Yun bringing financial and economic work under unified managment
29-12-1949
India recognizes PRC
29-12-1949
Lin Biao asks instructions on Korean soldiers
30-12-1949
National Agricultural Production Conference ends
30-12-1949
 US "NSC 48/2" The Position of the United States with Respect to Asia. Containment
31-12-1949
CC states PLA plans for 1950 to liberate Taiwan, Hainan and Tibet