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


Timeline 1950

Date Event
January
GAC "Instructions on the Question of Suburban Land in Old Liberated Areas,"
January LiuShaoqi Industrialization of the country and improvement of the people’s living standard
1-1-1950 Yue-Han (Guangzhou-Hankou) and the Jing-Han (Beijing-Hankou) Railroad are opened
1-1-1950 CC issues New Years Manifesto
1-1-1950 People"s China begins publication
1-1-1950 Southern University in Guangzhou is opened
1-1-1950 Mao meets Roshchin
1-1-1950 CC Decisions concerning Establishing a propaganda network for the popular masses in the party
1-1-1950 Chen Yun Industry and commerce in Shanghai
2-1-1950 Mao gives interview to Tass reporter
2-1-1950 Mao meets Molotov and Mikoyan
2-1-1950 Mao sends telegram to Peng Dehuai on Tibet
3-1-1950 Mao sends telegrams to CC on Zhou"s arrival
4-1-1950 Chinese New Law Sudies Research Institute is set up in Beijing
5-1-1950 Pakistan recognizes PRC
5-1-1950 Truman announces the non-intervention policy forward Taiwan
5-1-1950 Mao sends telegram to CC on Zhou"s arrival and about secrecy on new treaty
6-1-1950 GB recognizes PRC
6-1-1950 GAC adopts Regulation on the People"s Government Organization for provinces, cities, and counties
6-1-1950 military committee of Beijing announces take back military properties of foreign nations in the city
6-1-1950 Mao meets Vyshinsky on economic aid/pilot training/UN representation/ war criminals & new treaty
6-1-1950 Zhou Enlai sent a telegram from Moscow to Liu Shaoqi regarding Japanese warcrimes
7-1-1950 Ceylon recognizes PRC
7-1-1950 Mao sends telegrams to Zhou on foreign trade & UN seat
7-1-1950 Sino-Korean sign an agreement to establish additional telegraph and telephone lines.
8-1-1950 Zhou demands the UN to rob the Taiwan of its seats on the Security Council.
9-1-1950 Denmark recognizes PRC
9-1-1950 100,000 men from the Fourth Field Army are to be send into production in Northeast China
9-1-1950 Mao meets Kovalev and talks about Changchun railway
9-1-1950 Israel recognizes PRC. But was not ready to enter into diplomatic ties.
10-1-1950 Norway recognizes PRC
10-1-1950 US announces that it will blockSU proposal to giveU.N. seat to the P.R.C. SU delegate leaves
10-1-1950 Mao sends telegram to CC on Tibet
11-1-1950 CMC sends instructions on Korean soldiers
12-1-1950 Afghanistan recognizes PRC But was not ready to enter into diplomatic ties.
12-1-1950 Acheson (US) accuses SU of slicing off parts of North China.Taiwan & Korea are not in US defense perimeter
13-1-1950 SU boycotts the Security Council because of its vote against the expulsion of the Taiwan
13-1-1950 GAC Directive on Handling of Suburban Agricultural Land Problems in the Old liberated areas
13-1-1950 Mao Zedong cables to Liu Shaoqi regarding the status of US property and UN
13-1-1950 Finland recognizes PRC
14-1-1950 PRC orders all official US personnel to leave.
14-1-1950 Mao visits Leningrad
14-1-1950 Sweden recognizes PRC
15-1-1950 DRVietnam formally recognizes PRC and wishes to exchange ambassadors.
15-1-1950 construction is resumed on the Tianshui-Lanzhou section of Longhai railway
15-1-1950 Deng Speech at the Meeting of the Commanders of the PLA’s 18th Army
16-1-1950
17-1-1950 Principles of National Taxation are published
17-1-1950 Switzerland recognizes PRC
17-1-1950 Mao back in Moscow
18-1-1950 Mao meets Molotov
18-1-1950 Mao writes DPG on confiscation foreign barracks and UN
18-1-1950 Mao on UN delegation
19-1-1950 PRC recognizes the D.R. Vietnam
19-1-1950 Mao reacts on statement of Acheson
19-1-1950 Sino Vietnam trade agreement on military supplies
19-1-1950 PLA fights Battle of Bamianshan. border Region of Hunan, Sichuan and Hubei
19-1-1950 Peng Dehuai is appointed chairman for the NWB 4 vice chmn & 41 councillors
19-1-1950 Kim asks PRC to sendKorean-nationality soldiers back together with their equipment.
20-1-1950 Zhou arrives in Moscow
20-1-1950 GACDecisions on on Salt Affairs Throughout the Country
21-1-1950
 
22-1-1950 Chen Yun Two 10 day reports on the financial and economic situation
22-1-1950 Mao & Zhou meet Stalin
22-1-1950 CC acepts proposals of Nie Rongzhen to send Korean soldiers back
23-1-1950 Formally start of the negations on a new SU- Sino pact
24-1-1950 Mao meets Stalin
25-1-1950 severe air attack on Shanghai inflicted a high toll on civilian life
26-1-1950
 
27-1-1950 GAC provisional Rules Governing the Inspection of Ships, Their Crews, Passengers, and Luggage Upon Entry and Departure"
27-1-1950 GAC 17th session Enforcement rules on the nation wide taxation is adopted
27-1-1950 Rao Shushi is inaugurated as chairman of the EB in Shanghai 4 vice chmn and 68 councillors
27-1-1950 Su Yu "report on liberating Taiwan and establishing military forces"Taiwan Conference
28-1-1950 China Opera Institute set up
29-1-1950
 
30-1-1950 Stalin formally approves Kim’s unification project
30-1-1950 Liu meets Ho Chih Minh( secretly visiting Beijing)
30-1-1950 Xinjiang delgation arrives in Moscow
31-1-1950 Panchen Lama requests the PLA to advance to Tibet
31-1-1950 End of battle
31-1-1950 GAC Regulations on the administration of national taxation
February
Mao orders certain PLA units, including Para troops, to train for an invasion of Taiwan
February GAC establishes Press Administration
February Folk Literature & Art Research Society is formed Guo Moruo Chm, Lao She & Zhong Jingwen V Chm
1-2-1950
 
2-2-1950
 
3-2-1950 Ho leaves Beijing and travels to Moscow
4-2-1950
 
5-2-1950 Lin Biao is appointed chairman of the CSB.
6-2-1950 Fighters ofTaiwan raid Shanghai
6-2-1950 Sino-Vietnam Friendship Association
7-2-1950 PRC provides modern weapons to the Vietminh
7-2-1950 US recognizes South Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia
8-2-1950
 
9-2-1950 US states Taiwan is part of China
10-2-1950 Mao sends telegram to Liu on Zhoushan islands
10-2-1950 US protest against Taiwan bombarding US buildings in Shanghai
11-2-1950
 
12-2-1950 Zhou meets Roshchin
12-2-1950 Mao warns about expressing any inappropriate opinions on the treaty
13-2-1950 Political Affairs Council Financial Committee holds the National Financial Council
13-2-1950 Vyshinsky meets Zhou
14-2-1950 Treaty of Friendship, Alliance and Mutual Assistance between the SU and PRC
14-2-1950 Secret treaty PRC and SU on Xinjiang
14-2-1950 PLA starts battle of Tianquan in South-western China
15-2-1950 Political Mobilization Decree for Marching to Liberate Tibet
16-2-1950 SU air-defence division moves into Shanghai, Nanjing, and Xuzhou , to take responsibilities
16-2-1950 GAC Directive on Protection of State Secrets by Workers at All Levels of Government
17-2-1950 Mao, Zhou and Ho leave Moscow
17-2-1950 Maoon Landreform and grain taks in newly liberated areas
18-2-1950
 
19-2-1950
 
20-2-1950 Mao and Zhou visits cities in Western Siberia and SU Far East
20-2-1950 End of battle of Tianquan
21-2-1950
 
22-2-1950 The leading organ of the Southwest Military Area Command of the PLA is formed
22-2-1950 971 Japanese POWs in Soviet custody will be handed over to the PRC
23-2-1950
 
24-2-1950 21st meeting GAC "Order Concerning the strict Prohibition of Opium and other Narcotics"
25-2-1950 CC issues statement on Tibet
25-2-1950 End of national Financial and Economical Conference
26-2-1950 End of visits of Mao and Zhou in SU Ho also leaves
27-2-1950 Mao in Harbin "Conversations During Inspection of Heilongjiang Province"
28-2-1950 GAC "Instructions of Setting Up Factory Administrative Committee of State- and Public-Run Factories."
28-2-1950 21st meeting GAC "Directive on land reform and grain requisition"
March
Mao "Directive on the Film Qing gong mishi "
March The Naval Academy is set up at Dalian
1-3-1950 Sino-Polish Barter Agreement
1-3-1950 The China Grain Company is formally inaugurated
1-3-1950 Ministry of Trade Provisional regulations on currency control
2-3-1950
 
3-3-1950 PLA captures Nan"ao island
3-3-1950 GAC 22d session "decision on the unification of national financial and economic work" central treasury
4-3-1950 Mao and Zhou back in Beijing. Ho travels with them to Beijing
5-3-1950 SU air defence division is stationed
6-3-1950
 
7-3-1950 ACWF "General Organizational Principles of the Women’s Federation,’’
8-3-1950 US is not willing to take away Taiwan seat in UN
9-3-1950 In great secrecy SU troops are deploying around Shanghai
10-3-1950 GAC Decisions on Procedures Governing the Unification of State-Operated Trade
10-3-1950 Zhu De Building a people"s airforce
11-3-1950 Su Yu to dicuss the first detailed plan to liberate Taiwan
12-3-1950 Mao "request for opinions on the tactics for dealing with rich peasants"
12-3-1950 The Southwest Military Area Command launches the PLA Xichang Campaign
13-3-1950
14-3-1950 Mao on the requisitioning of grain
14-3-1950 Liu Shaoqi drafts an intraparty directive on foreign relations
15-3-1950 SU and Outer Mongolia sign a treaty of mutual assistance in the event of military attack
16-3-1950 large-scale operation to mop up bandits
16-3-1950 1st national united front work conference begins.
17-3-1950
 
18-3-1950 CC issues Directive on Resolute Suppression of Counter-Revolutionaries
18-3-1950 GMD troops land on the mainland and capture Sungmen.
19-3-1950 CC calls for criticism and self-criticism in media publications
20-3-1950
 
21-3-1950
 
22-3-1950 GAC reorganizes the bank of China
22-3-1950 GAC instructions on banning organs and PLA units from running commercial undertakings
23-3-1950 SU troops around Shanghai fully deployed
24-3-1950 GAC "Decision on the Unified Administration of Financial Revenues & Expenditures of the Year 1950.
25-3-1950 CC Consolidating & Strengthening the Relationships between Party Members & Non-Party Masses
26-3-1950
27-3-1950 The Sino-SU Agreement on Sino-SU companies in Xinjiang are signed in Moscow
27-3-1950 Sino-SU agreement on conditions of SU specialists in China
27-3-1950 Enlarged PB meeting on past and future policies
27-3-1950 The Netherlands recognizes PRC
28-3-1950 Decision made to establish diplomatic relation with Indonesia
29-3-1950 Guo Moro chairs Association for the study of Folk literature
29-3-1950 General Press Administration of the CPGC convenes 1st national press workers" conference
29-3-1950 GMD troops attack the town of Yiwu
30-3-1950 Kim and his delegation secretly arrive in the SU.
30-3-1950 Gao Gang on management policy
30-3-1950 Liu sends inner party directive on Sino-Soviet agreement
31-3-1950
April
Peng Dehuai makes trip to the Soviet Union and several Eastern European countries ????
April Mao “Comment on the policy for national bourgeoisie, private industry and commerce"
April GAC a directive to prohibit government agencies and army units from engaging in commercial business
1-4-1950 diplomatic relation with India is established
1-4-1950 CAFA Institute is formed
1-4-1950 The Xinhua Main Administration is established in Beijing
2-4-1950 The central drama institute is set up (zhongyang xiju xueyuan)
3-4-1950 GAC "Interim Regulations Concerning Deed Tax",
4-4-1950 Central Music Institute is set up (zhongyang yinyue xueyuan)
5-4-1950 1st official Chinese delegation arrives in Hungary
6-4-1950 End of enlarged PB meeting
7-4-1950 GAC Decision concerning the Practicing of Cash Control in State Organs
8-4-1950 Kim visits Stalin
9-4-1950
 
10-4-1950 Mao agrees to meet Kim
11-4-1950 6th Session of the CPGC "
12-4-1950
 
13-4-1950 diplomatic relation with Indonesia is established
13-4-1950 Telegram from Zhou to Bulganin on military aid
13-4-1950 GAC "improvement of the public–private relationship so as to accelerate the economic recovery"
13-4-1950 GAC adopts Marriage Law
14-4-1950 PLA defeats GMD troops in Yiwu
14-4-1950 The PLAN leading organs are formed within CMC Xiao Jinguang as the commander.
14-4-1950 US  decision to make Containment against Communist expansion (NSC-68)
14-4-1950 7th Session of the CPGC
15-4-1950
 
16-4-1950 4th Field Army PLA crosses the Qiongzhou Strait
16-4-1950 End of national press workers" conference
17-4-1950 PLA lands on Hainan
17-4-1950 CMC orders to organize the CMAG
18-4-1950
19-4-1950 Supply by the SU to PRC of Industrial Equipment and Materials from 1950 to 1952
19-4-1950 CC "Decisions Regarding the Development of Criticism and Self-Criticism Through the Press"
20-4-1950
 
21-4-1950 PLA takes Hainan
21-4-1950 CC orders large scale demobilisation of PLA
21-4-1950 General News administration decision concerning the Improvement of Newspaper Work&establisment Broadcast Receiving Network
22-4-1950 GAC prohibiting the operation of businesses by government organs and the armed forces
23-4-1950
 
24-4-1950
 
25-4-1950 Protocol on the Organization of the Chinese Changchun Railway Company is issued
25-4-1950 Stalin finally endorse Kim’s plan Kim leaves Moscow
25-4-1950 Mao issues 8 Regulations to govern cities
26-4-1950 SU military jets supplied to China
26-4-1950 CMC instructs PLA cadres over battalion level to join the CMAG
27-4-1950
 
28-4-1950 Beijing Radio Broadcasting starts
28-4-1950 GAC 13th meeting
29-4-1950 "Decisions on the Establishment of Radio Broadcast Monitoring Teams.
30-4-1950 Hainan is completely captured
May
PLA fighting guerrillas in Xinjiang
1-5-1950 CPGC promulgates New marriage law
1-5-1950 CC issues Directive on Launching Rectification Movement Within Party and Army
1-5-1950 “Decision of the General Press Administration of the CPGC on Improving Newspaper Work”
1-5-1950 Liu "May day speech"
2-5-1950
 
3-5-1950 Stalin answers on Mao"s request for naval and aviation supplies
4-5-1950 End of the First UFWD
4-5-1950 Group of Christians writes a manifesto supporting the new regime
5-5-1950 Chen Yun Maintaining stable currency and prices
6-5-1950 Tianzhu Tibetan AC in Gansu is established
6-5-1950 Zhou urges for militairy aid from the SU
6-5-1950 Zhu De Strenghten inspection of party discipline
7-5-1950
 
8-5-1950 7 city conference on trade and industry
9-5-1950 diplomatic relation with Sweden is established
9-5-1950 GB institutes formal checkpoints and cut direct rail links between Hong Kong and PRC.
10-5-1950 GMD evacuates the Chusan islands in the face of a threatened attack.
10-5-1950 PLA units take Denko across the Yangtze
11-5-1950 diplomatic relation with Denmark is established
11-5-1950 PLA unit of the 3rd Field Army starts the Dongshan Island Operation
12-5-1950
 
13-5-1950 Kim secretly visits Beijing after visiting Stalin
13-5-1950 Tibetan delegation to meet with Chinese representatives in Hong Kong
13-5-1950 Telegram from Zhou to Bulganin on military aid
14-5-1950 Stalin sends telegrams on the Korean situation. North Korea will start war
14-5-1950 Mao returns 2 Korean divisions to Kim
15-5-1950 Information Administration "Decisions on the Establishment of Radio Broadcast Monitoring Teams"
16-5-1950 Deng "Report delivered on a congress for the press"
16-5-1950 End of visit Kim
16-5-1950 The Conference on Staff Work & the Conference on Ordnance PLA is held in Beijing
16-5-1950 National Meeting of Chief of Staffs PLA decides to demobilize 1.4 million forces
16-5-1950 The fight of bandit suppressing is launched in whole China
17-5-1950
 
18-5-1950
 
19-5-1950 PLA 3rd Field Army occupies the whole of the Zhoushan Archipelago
19-5-1950 GAC Interim Procedures for Relief the Unemployed Works
20-5-1950 Mao sends telegram to Rao Sushi
21-5-1950 CC directs that Party recruitment should be suspended in the countryside.
22-5-1950
23-5-1950 PLAN is formally established under the command of General Xiao Jinguang.
23-5-1950 8-member Tibetan delegation will go to Hong Kong for negotiations with CCP
24-5-1950 GACProvisional Measures for Prohibiting the Export of Precious Cultural Relics and Precious Books
25-5-1950 PLA 4th Field Army launches a campaign aiming at the Wanshan Islands
25-5-1950 Chen Yun Combatting sluggish sales of commodities
26-5-1950 end of 7city conference
27-5-1950
 
28-5-1950
 
29-5-1950 MOT measures for taking over the businesses operated by government organs & PLA
29-5-1950 CC approves proposals of Southwest Bureau in Tibet
30-5-1950 GAC Decisions Relating to the Summer Levy of " Public Food Grain" in the NLA in 1950
31-5-1950
 
June
 
June Conference between the principal heads of State and private industry in Beijing
June Campaign to Suppress Bandits in Liuwandashan starts
1-6-1950 1st National Conference on Higher Education in Beijing
1-6-1950 Southwest university for nationalities is founded in Chengdu
1-6-1950 GAC issues directive on spare-time education
1-6-1950 GAC decision regarding a 50 percent reduction in the present tax rate for salt
2-6-1950 General Wu Shi, deputy chief of staff of GMD, is arrested as a CCP spy
3-6-1950
 
4-6-1950 Mao "Letter to Liu Shaoqi"
5-6-1950
 
6-6-1950 3rd Enlarged Plenum of the 7th CC
6-6-1950 Deng speaks about rectification campaign in CCP in Chongqing
6-6-1950 Qian Xuesen is accused of being a Communist
7-6-1950 Zhou chairs a meeting of the CMC which decides to form the Northeast Defence Army (NDA) immediately
8-6-1950 diplomatic relation with Burma (Myanmar) is established
8-6-1950 1st National Conference on Higher Education in Beijing ends
9-6-1950 End of 3rd Enlarged Plenum of the 7th CCConsolidation campaign
10-6-1950
 
11-6-1950
 
12-6-1950 CC statement on the present situation in Japan
12-6-1950 Beijing students who are members of the CCP and NDYL receive their job assignments
12-6-1950 CC “The Instruction about policy for handicraft industry"
13-6-1950
 
14-6-1950 2nd Session of the 1st CPPCC National Committee is held.
14-6-1950 GAC gives instructions for the basic tasks of CAS / 1st plenary session of CAS
14-6-1950 GAC: "Directive Concerning the Stepping Up of Spare-Time Education for Workers"
14-6-1950 Sino-Czechoslovak Trade Agreement for 1950
15-6-1950 Chengyu railway construction starts
16-6-1950 RMRB the significance of the Chinese model for colonial countries
17-6-1950
 
18-6-1950
 
19-6-1950 Mao "Letter to Ma Xulun on the Need to Ensure the Good Health of School Pupils and Students"
19-6-1950 1st aeronautical unit of PLA- the 4th Mixed Brigade - is established. Nie Fengzhi Cmdr.
20-6-1950
 
21-6-1950
 
22-6-1950
 
23-6-1950 End of the 2nd Session of the 1st CPPCC National Committee
23-6-1950 Su Yu revises the Taiwan campaign plan again
24-6-1950
 
25-6-1950 Outbreak of the Korean War
25-6-1950 Resolution Adopted by the Security Council on Korea
26-6-1950
 
27-6-1950 Zhou denounces Truman"s order to the US 7th Fleet to prevent any attack on Taiwan
27-6-1950 Mao, Liu, Zhu De & CCP leaders meet with military advisers preparing to work in Vietnam.
27-6-1950 Resolution of the Security Council of UN on Korea. Zhou reacts. SU withdrawls from Security Council
28-6-1950 Eighth Session of the CPGC " Taiwan
28-6-1950 GAC adopts trade union law
29-6-1950 GB authorises Royal Navy support for South Korea.
29-6-1950 Central Demobilization Commission issues the Decision of the CMC & GAC on the 1950 Demobilization
29-6-1950 The North Korean army seizes Seoul the capital of the South
30-6-1950 CPGC promulgates Agrarian reform law
30-6-1950 PLAN postpones preparations for the Taiwan campaign and orders military observers to N Korea
30-6-1950 CMAG is formed in Nanning Wei Guoxing chmn, Mei Jiasheng & Deng Yifan as dep chmn
July
Fu Zuoyi heads a delegation to the SU to study water resource development
July National General Office of Supply and Marketing Cooperatives
1-7-1950 Mao calls on all lovers of peace and freedom to unite against the new US aggression
1-7-1950 RMRB stresses a reform in party composition, i.e., the absorption of workers into the party
1-7-1950 "Peace Signature Movement Week"
1-7-1950 Sino-SU Civil Aviation Company is established
2-7-1950 Zhou talks with Soviet Ambassador Roshchin
3-7-1950 Bayaryn Jargalsaihan, Outer Mongolia ambassador visits Mao
4-7-1950
 
5-7-1950 Stalin approves sending Chinese Volunteers to the Korean border
6-7-1950 East China Military Area Command PLA & PLAN conduct the Shengsi Island Operation
7-7-1950 Resolution adopted by the Security Council of UN on Korea
7-7-1950 End of "Peace Signature Movement Week"
7-7-1950 CMC announces decision to establish the North Eastern Border Defence Forces
7-7-1950 Chen Geng goes as advisor to Vietnam
8-7-1950 Korea complains about chinese representative
9-7-1950
 
10-7-1950 Zhou chairs conference of CMC on Korea
10-7-1950 Japanese POW are handed over by SU
10-7-1950 MOC organizes the Drama Reform Committee
10-7-1950 CPGC General Principles of Organic Regulations for the People’s Tribunals
11-7-1950 "Chinese People"s Committee of the Movement to Fight against U.S. Invasion of Taiwan & Korea" is formed
11-7-1950 Provisional measures governing the registration of enterprises of the motion picture industry
12-7-1950 more than 150 acts of sabotage against the railways in the north-east province between 12/7 & 11/8
12-7-1950 East China Military Area Command conducts assault on GMD troops on the Pishan Island, Zhejiang
12-7-1950 GAC orders all administrations to protect ancient cultural objects and buildings
12-7-1950 MOC Provisional Regulations on the Registration of the Cinema Industry"
13-7-1950 CMC decision on organizing the Northeast Frontier Force
13-7-1950 Telegram onSU air protection for Chinese troops
14-7-1950 GAC issues "General Regulations Governing the Organisation of Peasant"s Associations"
14-7-1950 GAC issues "General Regulations Governing the Organisation of Peasant"s Tribunes"
14-7-1950 conference of secretaries of provincial, municipal & autonomous Region Party committees
14-7-1950 Zhou"the communist international and the CCP"
15-7-1950 Disastrous floods in Hunan
15-7-1950 ZhouCEPB obligations are further expanded
15-7-1950 1st national civil affairs conference
16-7-1950
 
17-7-1950 "National Campaign Week against U.S. Aggression in Taiwan and Korea"
17-7-1950 MacArthur sees "a unique use of the atomic bomb--to strike a blocking blow" if China enters war
18-7-1950 SU transfers custody of 969 Japanese prisoners according Sino-Soviet Treaty
18-7-1950 Order to send Korean people back to Korea
19-7-1950 Taiwan offers to send three of his best divisions to help South Korea
20-7-1950
 
21-7-1950 Deng "On minorities"
21-7-1950 42nd meeting GAC "Directive on the Suppression of Counter-Revolutionary Activities," is passed
22-7-1950 publication of"A Public Notice to Taiwan Comrades"
22-7-1950 PLA attacks Quemoy and Little Quemoy
22-7-1950 Mao sends Stalin telegram on accepting air protection and training of pilots
22-7-1950 Zhou reports to Mao on Korean situation
23-7-1950 GAC general instructions to surpress counter revolutionaries by life imprisonment or execution
24-7-1950 PLA 38th Army arrives in the Fengcheng area of Liaoning province
24-7-1950 End of special week
25-7-1950 PLA 39th Army enters the Liaoyang-Haicheng areas in Liaoning
25-7-1950 1st National congress of representatives of cooperative workers
25-7-1950 SU agrees to train Chinese pilots
26-7-1950 The first Brigade of the PLAAF-,the first airborne unit, is formed in Shanghai
26-7-1950 1st National judicial work conference begins
27-7-1950 Southwest MAC is instituted
27-7-1950 All-China Cooperative Association is founded
27-7-1950 PLA 40th Army arrives at Andong, a border city on the Yalu River
28-7-1950 GMD stops attacks on PRC after Truman"s request
28-7-1950 GAC Decision Concerning Leadership Relations for Institutions of Higher Education
28-7-1950 ‘Principle of Three-Self’ is adopted by Christian leaders
29-7-1950 Subei Mongolian AC in Gansu is established
30-7-1950 GMD starts airstrikes against PRC ships around Quemoy
31-7-1950 The campaign for the suppression of counter-revolutionaries is carried out
August
Northwest Nationalities College in Lanzhou is founded
1-8-1950 China Civil Aviation Administration (CCAC) formally starts regular flights
1-8-1950 Mao and SU foreign minister Molotov discuss the Korean War
1-8-1950 First National Congress of the CETU
1-8-1950 the leading organ of the artillery force of the PLA was set up in Beijing
1-8-1950 Soviet Ambassador comes back to the work of the UN
2-8-1950 Min of Higher Education "Decisions on Implementing Curriculum Reform in Institutions of Higher Learning"
3-8-1950 Truman wants GMD to stop airstrikes
4-8-1950 44th meeting GAC adopts "Decisions concerning the differentiation of class status in the countryside"
4-8-1950 44th meeting GAC adopts regulations dividing the population (army people) into social categories
4-8-1950 PB meeting to discuss Korean situation
5-8-1950 CMC orders Gao Gang to complete combat preparations by the middle of August.
5-8-1950 CIA clandestine air flights over China to support GMD sabotage and guerrilla operations
6-8-1950 CMC meeting on reorganisation of the PLA
7-8-1950 The National Health Conference is held in Beijing
8-8-1950 GAC Provisional Regulations Governing Urban Real Estate taks
9-8-1950 PLA captures the islands outside the mouth Zhu Jiang (pearl river) (Guangdong) Nanpeng
10-8-1950
11-8-1950 GAC Provisional Regulations on the Protection of the Invention Right and the Patent Right
11-8-1950 PLA postpones the invasion of Taiwan and formally delays the Taiwan campaign until 1952
11-8-1950 Hong Kong government proclaims the Exportation Prohibition Order
11-8-1950 1st National judicial work conference ends
12-8-1950 MPS “Draft of the provisional regulation on the management of the special population,”
13-8-1950 Gao Gang heads the Shenyang military meeting on Korea
13-8-1950 Chinese ambassador Ni Zhiliang, arrives in Korea
14-8-1950
 
15-8-1950 Earthquake in Chayu Tibet magnitude 8.6 3,300 people were killed and 260 were injured,
15-8-1950 PB meeting last meeting with Ren Bishi
16-8-1950 Soong Qing Ling Chmn declares that China Welfare Fund be renamed to China Welfare Institute
16-8-1950 "The Importance of the Rectification Movement in the Work of National Construction"
17-8-1950 US ambassador for het UN says US wants a free unified and independent Korea
18-8-1950 End of The National Health Conference
18-8-1950 Mao sends telegram to Gao Gang
18-8-1950 Mao sends telegram to SW Bureau regarding Chamdo
18-8-1950 1st conference of natural science worker"s representative
19-8-1950
 
20-8-1950 Zhou sends telegram to the Sec.Gen. of UN supporting the SU motion of arbitrating the Korean issue
21-8-1950 "Resolution on the Classification of the Hierarchy Constituents in Farm Villages."
22-8-1950
 
23-8-1950 Mao"s instructions on attacking Tibet
24-8-1950 PRC sends a complaint to the Security Council charging the US
24-8-1950 End of All-China Conference of Scientific Workers
25-8-1950 strengthening harnessing work of Huaihe River
26-8-1950 CMC enlarged meeting decides to speed up the construction of special troops.
26-8-1950 “Orders on Initiating the Chamdo Campaign” PLA Southwest Military Region
27-8-1950 Several incidents during august, September with US airplanes at the Sino-Korean border
27-8-1950 GAC measures for the conclusion of contracts&dees with organs, state-owned enterprises&cooperatives
27-8-1950 Stalin sends telegram on SU advisors to Zhou
27-8-1950 Stalin sends telegram on Korea and UN to Gottwald
28-8-1950 SU-PRC sign agreement in Shenyang. All former Japanese properties in NE will be handed back
29-8-1950 2nd National Work Conference of Xinhua meets in Beijing
30-8-1950 CCP organizes 4 groups of representatives to visit minority areas in the SW, NW, NE and Mongolia
31-8-1950 Zhou chairs meeting of CMC on Korea
31-8-1950 Zhongguo Kexue (Scientific China) publishes 1st issue
31-8-1950 The Korean People"s Army launches the Pusan Campaign
September
Zhou sends several diplomatic notes to the UN S C protesting US attacks on Manchuria
September 1st National Conference on Worker-Peasant Education
September Lin Biao to SU for medical treatment (after 12 september)
1-9-1950 PLAN is founded
1-9-1950 the leading organ of the armoured force of the PLA was set up in Beijing
1-9-1950 Peng Dehuai establishes his CPV headquarters in Andong at an old Japanese armoury
2-9-1950 In Chongqing several 1000 people are burnt by fire
3-9-1950
4-9-1950 CC Directive on establishing procruracy organization
5-9-1950 9th Session of the CPGC meeting.
5-9-1950 GAC Interim Regulations on Agricultural Taxes in New Liberated Areas
6-9-1950 CMC orders the 50th Corps to move from Hubei to join the Northeast Frontier Defence Army.
7-9-1950
 
8-9-1950 Mao comments on army deployment
9-9-1950 US NS 81-1 action regarding Korea
10-9-1950 Liu attitude towards and methods of study
10-9-1950 Peng Dehuai speeds up his preparation for Korean intervention
10-9-1950 Second National Work Conference of Xinhua ends
11-9-1950 Mao "Letter to Chen Yu"
11-9-1950 Sec Cl UN reject SU proposal of PRC joining Manchuria debate
12-9-1950
 
13-9-1950
 
14-9-1950 diplomatic relation with Switzerland and Lichtenstein are established
15-9-1950 The National Publishing Conference is held in Beijing
15-9-1950 US army and allied forces land at Inchon
16-9-1950 Border campaign on Sino-Vietnamese border starts
16-9-1950 Tibetan mission meets with the PRC ambassador to India, Yuan Zhongxian
17-9-1950 USMilitary Assistance Advisory Group (MAAG) Indochina is formed that would grow to 1/2 million
17-9-1950 Zhou sends a five men team to Korea to investigate the situation. Including Chai Chengwen
18-9-1950
 
19-9-1950 The UN rejects the proposal to recognize the PRC as the representative government
20-9-1950 Agreement on maintaining friendly relations between Nepal and PRC
20-9-1950 GAC decision adjustment of fiscal income and expenditure in connection with the price
21-9-1950
22-9-1950 1st stage Campaign to Suppress Nationalists in North-eastern Guizhou
23-9-1950
 
24-9-1950 Zhou protests to the UN against alleged U.S. air bombardment of Andong
25-9-1950 End of The National Publishing Conference
25-9-1950 National Conference of Model Workers, Peasants and Soldiers opens in Beijing
25-9-1950 PLA troops combat Tibetans in Kham
25-9-1950 the Dongxiang AC is founded in Gansu is established
25-9-1950 Nie Ronzhen, tells the Indian Ambassador that China will intervene in Korea
25-9-1950 Joint Sino-SU Petroleum company with a modern refinery is built at Du Shanzi (Tu-shan-tzu)
26-9-1950 UN forces retake Seoul
27-9-1950 Mao "Comments on Suppressing and Liquidating Counterrevolutionaries"
27-9-1950 US acknowledged, planes may have mistakenly bombed in North Chinese town.
27-9-1950 “a ‘top secret’ directive” authorizes MacArthur to move beyond the 38th Parallel
27-9-1950 Zhou announces "China will send troops across the frontier to participate in defence of North Korea."
28-9-1950
29-9-1950 Joint Sino-SU metal company
29-9-1950 UN Security Council invites Chinese delegates to participate in its deliberations
29-9-1950 GAC ‘Interim Regulations on Registration of Social Associations’
30-9-1950 manifesto of 1527 "progressive" Christians who pledge themselves to support the regime.
30-9-1950
30-9-1950 CPPCC meeting. Zhou issues a warning: PRC will not sit idle if the US forces cross the 38th Parallel
October
construction of air raid shelters in the Mukden area, by November in other major cities in NE
October Union of Educational Workers is established in Beijing
1-10-1950 Zhou delivers a speech at the National Day "Fight for crushing the war of aggression"
1-10-1950 Parade
1-10-1950 Telegram from Zhouto Kim Il Sung
1-10-1950 Grain Administration is inaugerated
1-10-1950 South Korean troops cross the 38th parallel into North Korea.
2-10-1950 PB meeting on Korea after telegram from Stalin
2-10-1950 National Conference of Model Workers, Peasants and Soldiers ends
3-10-1950 Liu opens the first Renmin University in Beijing
3-10-1950 Zhou meets Indian ambassador
3-10-1950 Enlarged meeting Secretariat on Korea
4-10-1950 PB meeting on Korea
5-10-1950 PB meeting on Korea
5-10-1950 Zhou visits Moscow
5-10-1950 Russian experts are to leave Korea
6-10-1950 PLA forces enter Xizang (Tibet)
6-10-1950 Enlarged meeting CMC
6-10-1950 Roshchin visits Mao
7-10-1950 American patrols cross the 38th parallel in Korea
7-10-1950 PLA troops cross Yangtze and hit border towns from Tsakhalo to Denko
7-10-1950 First National Opera Festival is held in Beijing
7-10-1950 The Problem of the Independence of Korea. General Assembly Resolution Approved
8-10-1950 Special enlarged Politburo meeting Mao decides to enter the Korean war
8-10-1950 Zhou talks with Indian ambassador
8-10-1950 Zhou and Lin fly to the Black Sea villa of Stalin. Interpreter Shi Zhe & Kang Yimin
8-10-1950 Peng flies to Shenyang to take the command of the CPV
9-10-1950 Formal meeting of cadres assigned to the CPV is convened in Shenyang by Gao Gang
10-10-1950 Sino-German Trade Agreement for 1951
10-10-1950 CC "Instructions on Suppressing the Counter-Revolutionary Activities."
11-10-1950 Stalin meets Zhou and Lin
11-10-1950 PB meetingno SU aircover
12-10-1950 Mao orders Peng Dehuai to postpone the intervention. Peng flies to Beijing
13-10-1950 PB meeting Mao affirms his decision to enter the war
13-10-1950 GAC shuts down the Catholic Fu Jen University in Beijing.
13-10-1950 GAC & Supreme People’s Court directive regarding the speedy processing of accumulated cases
14-10-1950 GAC promulgates Decision on Harnessing Huaihe River.
14-10-1950 Mao meets Roshchin and talks about North Korea
14-10-1950 Peng sends the first train load of Chinese soldiers across the Yalu river
14-10-1950 Letter from Zhouto Stalin
15-10-1950 PLA attacks the GMD stronghold in Dragon mountain Hunan
15-10-1950 Stalin meets Zhou and Lin
16-10-1950 2nd National Public Security Meeting starts
16-10-1950 a regiment of the 42nd Army enters Korea in the nightMao orders attack
16-10-1950 Zhu De "The October Revolution and the Chinese People"
17-10-1950 Zhou writes UN on Taiwan
18-10-1950 Zhou back In Beijing
18-10-1950 PB meeting
18-10-1950 Provisional Regulations for the Punishment of Lawbreaking Landlords in East China
19-10-1950 the first units of CPV troops cross the Yalu River into North Korea
19-10-1950 Mao tells Party Officials to Maintain a News Blackout on the Fighting in Korea
19-10-1950 PLA forces defeat 5,000-manTibetan force at Changdu in north-eastern Xizang
19-10-1950 the Interim Provision on the Registration of Social organizations is adopted
20-10-1950 PLA fight against remains of GMD troops
21-10-1950 Kim meets Peng Dehuai
21-10-1950 2nd national conference on public security ends
22-10-1950
 
23-10-1950 The PLA Air Defence Headquarters is formally established in Beijing
24-10-1950 Zhou "Resisting US Aggression,…" during a meeting of the CPPCC
25-10-1950 Start of 1st campaign CPV in Korea. US warcrimes according to PLA
25-10-1950 2nd Sino-SU agreement on conditions of SU specialists in China
26-10-1950 Indian Government protests against the PLA using the military forces in Tibet.
26-10-1950 CCInstructions concerning Conducting Propaganda on Current Affairs nationwide
27-10-1950 Ren Bishi dies in Beijing at age 46
27-10-1950 CPV ends the US/UN advance PRC officially enters the Korean war. Mao asks Stalin for help
28-10-1950 diplomatic relation with Finland is established
28-10-1950 FLAC calls upon writers and artists to support the Korean War
28-10-1950 GAC "Directive Concerning Improving and Developing the Publishing Business"
29-10-1950 Letter from Zhou Enlai to Mao Zedong and Liu Shaoqi
30-10-1950 MOFA to India; "The problem of Tibet is entirely the domestic problem of PRC"
31-10-1950 Air defence meeting
November
 
November "anti-despot, reduce-rent, return-deposits movement" is started
1-11-1950 260 agricultural scientists sign a petition of protest against American aggression
1-11-1950 First Chinese Mig fighters(flown by SU pilots) are seen in action in air battles over the Yalu River.
2-11-1950 CPV and US troops clash in Korea for the first time
2-11-1950 Kim asks Stalin to train the Korean reserves of the PLA
3-11-1950 the S U dispatches 10 tank regiments to 4 major citiesin northern, eastern and northeastern
3-11-1950 General Rules for the Organization of Conferences of District People’s Representatives of All Circles in
4-11-1950 CCP and other parties publicize the joint "Anti-American and Pro-Korean" declaration
5-11-1950 End of the 1st campaign in Korea
6-11-1950 The railway force of the Chinese army enters Korea
6-11-1950 CPV offensive is halted at Chongchon River, North Korea
6-11-1950 Measures for Handling the Land and Property of Overseas Chinese in the Course of the Agrarian Reform
7-11-1950 The 9th army enters Korea. Mao requests for military equipment from the SU
7-11-1950 Chinese delegation arrived in Lake Success to present China’s position to the UN
7-11-1950 Patrotic pact by the merchants and trade unions of Beijing
8-11-1950 the leading organ of the public security force of the PLA is set up in Beijing.
8-11-1950 UN security council accepts representative of the PRC to the meeting on Korea
9-11-1950 SU wants PRC to turn down UN proposal
10-11-1950 the peaceful liberation of Tibet is declared
10-11-1950 CC adopts a special resolution about the struggle against internal counter-revolution”
11-11-1950 The Tibetan Government makes an appeal to the UN on Chinese aggression
11-11-1950 PRC demands combined talks on Korea and Taiwan in Sec Cl
11-11-1950 GAC promulgation of Suburban Land Reform Regulations
12-11-1950
 
13-11-1950
 
14-11-1950 End of First National Opera Festival
14-11-1950 ACYF announces its "Proclamation of "Anti-USA and Aid Korea" and Defending China",
14-11-1950 MOT instructions on banning speculative trade
15-11-1950 Mao asks Stalin for air force aid
15-11-1950 2nd national conference on finacial works
15-11-1950 Letter from Zhou Enlai to Mao Zedong and Others
16-11-1950 Zhou asks for SU aid
16-11-1950 2nd World peace conference in Warsaw starts
16-11-1950 PRC notifies India that the liberation of Tibet is PRC"s internal issue
16-11-1950 GAC Regulations Governing the Procedures for the Settlement of Labour Disputes
17-11-1950 Mao orders east coastal Regions to make preparations to fight against invasion
17-11-1950 The Dalai Lama (15y old) assumes full religious and political powerundermining Panchen Lama.
18-11-1950 Mao instructs Peng Dehuai. The command will be in Chinese hands
18-11-1950 2nd stage Campaign to Suppress Nationalists in North-eastern Guizhou
19-11-1950
 
20-11-1950
 
21-11-1950
 
22-11-1950 Telegram from the CMC Concerning the Tightening of Air defenses
22-11-1950 2nd World peace conference in Warsaw ends
23-11-1950 National Water Conservation Conference is held
23-11-1950 Maoremarks at the banquet for the north Korean government delegation
24-11-1950 Garze Tibetan AP in Sichuanis established
24-11-1950 Experimental plan for fostering minority nationalities cadres
24-11-1950 GAC sets up the Central Nationalities Institute
24-11-1950 Wu Xiuquan accusesUS of armed aggression against Taiwan
25-11-1950 launch of the 2nd campaign, pushing the enemy to the south of the 38th Parallel.
25-11-1950 Mao"s son is killed in Korea
26-11-1950 Chinese people"s committee against American aggression and aid for Korea is founded
27-11-1950 MOC convenes a 2-week National Conference on Opera Reform
27-11-1950 end of 2nd financial work conference
28-11-1950 Wu speaksto the Political Committee of the U.N. General Assembly
29-11-1950
30-11-1950 Group catholics issues a manifesto about self-governing, self-supporting & self-propagating
30-11-1950 resolutions on Taiwan is rejected
December
end of CCP rectification campaign
December National Conference of Educational Workers is held in Beijing
December Zhou holds several meetings on constructing aviation industry
1-12-1950 People"s Publishing House is set up in Beijing
1-12-1950 Representatives of CCP and Korean Communist party talk about joint military operations
1-12-1950 Chen Yun Strenghtening control of finance and investments
2-12-1950 Mao "Telegram to Participants of Demonstration in Tianjin "
2-12-1950 CC of the Youth League calls on the youth nationwide to enrol for military schools
3-12-1950 Mao and Kim meet and form Joint Command of the CPVA and KPA
4-12-1950 Zhou makes statement about "Peace Treaty" with Japan
4-12-1950 General Cadres Management Department & General Intelligence Department are founded
4-12-1950 Mao approves PLAAF plan for air support to CPV forces in Korea
5-12-1950 PRC accepts the provisions of the Universal Postal Convention of 1947
5-12-1950 ACFSS holds meeting to "Resist US aggression and to aid Korea"
5-12-1950 SU advices on representation in UN on Korea
6-12-1950 CPV recover Pyongyang
7-12-1950 Water Conservation Conf ends control task measures are proposed to reduce the risk of flooding
7-12-1950 China’s conditions of withdrawal presented to India, England, the US, the UN and Sweden.
7-12-1950 Chen Yun State monopoly of the purchaseof cotton yarn and cloth
8-12-1950 U.S. Commerce Department announces a total trade embargo on PRC.
8-12-1950 An Ziwen"s Report to Mao and Liu on Cadre Management
8-12-1950 CPV-KPA combined command is established. Peng is Cmdr. and p.c.
8-12-1950 Instructions for negotiations Chinese UN delegation
8-12-1950 End of 2nd campaign in Korea
8-12-1950 GACregulations governing the organization of conference of representatives on xiang level
8-12-1950 GAC Provisional regulations governing the control of foreign trade
9-12-1950 General Douglas MacArthur "requests commander"s discretion to use atomic weapons."
10-12-1950 End ofCCP & Korean talks
11-12-1950 1rst Chemical Defence Corps school is founded, leading to the chemical defence corps
11-12-1950 Provisional Regulations for the Preferential Treatment of the Families of Revolutionary Martyrs&Revolutionary Military Personnel
12-12-1950 Telephone connection between Beijing and Moscow
12-12-1950 Mao and Peng meet. Zhou reports on situation in Korea
13-12-1950 Mao orders CPV to cross the 38th Parallel. Despite Peng"s plea not to cross
13-12-1950 launch of the Three-Self Movement
13-12-1950 Zhou expresses that China is the most interested in a armistice
13-12-1950 GAC decision regarding the system for the final fiscal statement, the auditing of the budget
14-12-1950 UN accepts resolution on forming a 3 men group to accomplish a ceasefire in Korea
14-12-1950 Principles for customs organizations
15-12-1950
16-12-1950 US freezes Chinese public and private assets in the United States
16-12-1950 Not delivered speech Wu to the UN.
17-12-1950
18-12-1950 Mao "Letter to Chen Shutong"
19-12-1950 Tibet"s Dalai Lama flies from Yadong (near Indian border) after Chinese invasion
19-12-1950 Wu Xiuquan leaves New York empty-handed
19-12-1950 GAC: Provisional Regulations Concerning Slaughter Taks
19-12-1950 GAC Provisional regulations for income tax on interest and dividends
20-12-1950 Campaign to Suppress Bandits in Shiwandashan GMD troops try to flee to Vietnam. End in February 1951
21-12-1950 Deng "Outline for the report"
21-12-1950 Mao orders Peng to cross the 38th parallel
22-12-1950 PRC rejects the offer of a ceasefire in Korea
22-12-1950 GAC&PLA joint directive PLA is an important guarantee for the democratic dictatorship
22-12-1950 Provisional regulations on mining
23-12-1950
24-12-1950 PRC issues statemnt on Tiber and India
24-12-1950 General Douglas MacArthur sends a list of targets to the Pentagon
25-12-1950 the leading organ of the engineer corps of the PLA is set up in Beijing.
25-12-1950 GAC Regulation on the implemantation of currency control
26-12-1950 The 10th session of the CPGC
26-12-1950 RMRB "The deviation of "generous policy" must be radically corrected"
27-12-1950
 
28-12-1950 GAC All U.S. property in PRC is expropriated
28-12-1950 CPV cross the 38th Parallel into South Korea
29-12-1950 Chen Yi on a fact-finding mission in Korea
29-12-1950 65th GAC "Provisional Bill of Privately Operated Enterprises."
29-12-1950 GAC "Report on Principles of Dealing with the Cultural & Educational Organs accepting US funding"
30-12-1950 Launch of the 3rd campaign
30-12-1950 GAC regulations of all circles people"s representatives conferences on chu and xiang level
31-12-1950 General Principles for Trial Implementation on Litigation Procedures