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


Timeline 1951

Date Event
January
  GAC establishes Religious Affair Bureau
1-1-1951
  Mao comments on SU advisors
1-1-1951
 China Pictorial begins publishing in English
1-1-1951
 CC issues Decision on establishing an all-party propaganda network aimed at the masses
1-1-1951
 Sino - SU agreement on the navigational procedures, development, use of the Ussuri River
2-1-1951
 India trade agreement
3-1-1951
 Central Institute of Literacy Research is established in Beijing
4-1-1951
 Seoul falls again to CPV and North Korean troops
4-1-1951
 The Ordnance Industry Commission is formally established.
5-1-1951
 
6-1-1951
 US resumes aid to Taiwan.
7-1-1951
 
8-1-1951
 3rd campaign CPV successfully ends
8-1-1951
 Lu Xun Memorial Hall is set up in Shanghai
9-1-1951
 
10-1-1951
 Mao writes on landreform and Zhen Fan
10-1-1951
 Peng Dehuai and Kim argue about regrouping and resting
11-1-1951
 Peng Dehuai and Kim argue about regrouping and resting
11-1-1951
 Measures for carrying out the registration of cultural, educational & religious organs receiving foreign subsidies
12-1-1951
 GAC Supplementary directive handling the problem of unemployed intellectuals
13-1-1951
 Tianjin Catholic circles issue a "Manifesto on Self-Reliance and Innovation."
13-1-1951
 Mao warns Fujian for an large scale invasion of GMD troops
14-1-1951
 Mao backs Peng
14-1-1951
 Mao asks Stalin on military credits
15-1-1951
 the Military College of the PLA is founded in Nanjing, under the directorship of Liu Bocheng
16-1-1951
 Liu establishes an international department of CCP
16-1-1951
 Peng Dehuai meets Kim
16-1-1951
 Mao cables Stalin on message from Kim
16-1-1951
 2nd United Front Work Conference starts
17-1-1951
 PRC refuses a cease-fire in Korea.
17-1-1951
 Mao orders the death penalty in Hunan
17-1-1951
 Zhou meets catholic leaders and calls for support of the 3 autonomies
18-1-1951
 Deng "‘The Party must concern itself with schools and education"
18-1-1951
 The transfer of the SU properties in north-eastern China is completed
19-1-1951
 Mao"s directive to the Chinese People’s Volunteers CPV
20-1-1951
 
21-1-1951
 The Air Force joins the Korean War and launches the first aerial duel.
21-1-1951
 Mao "regarding the deployment of the counterrevolutionary suppression"
22-1-1951
 Sino-Hungarian Trade Agreement for 1951
22-1-1951
 Mao "on the issue of convicting the counterrevolutionaries"
23-1-1951
Guangdong takes action against counterrevolutionaries
24-1-1951
 Mao "Comment on Suppressing and Liquidating Counterrevolutionaries "
25-1-1951
 Launch of the 1st phase of the 4th campaign
25-1-1951
 NCNA announces recruitment instructions Democratic Parties
26-1-1951
 GAC "Labour Insurance Regulations"
26-1-1951
 Mao visits Indian embassy on National day
27-1-1951
 Peng Dehuai proposes temporarily retreat
28-1-1951
 Mao refuses Peng"s proposal
29-1-1951
 Sino-Polish Agreement Concerning Exchange of Goods and Payments in 1951
30-1-1951
 Army representatives return home to report on their military actions in Korea
31-1-1951
 
February
 Usman Bator 53, anti-Communist Kazakh guerrilla leader is captured
February
 South China Corporation a joint venture is set up
February
 Campaign to Suppress Bandits in Liuwandashan ends
1-2-1951
 The United Nations condemns PRC as an aggressor in Korea
1-2-1951
 Routine Service, Formation &Discipline Regulations (drafts)for the PLA are promulgated
2-2-1951
 Zhou issues a statement denouncing the UNcondemnation
2-2-1951
 CC Instructions on Promoting the Movement to Resist America & Assist Korea among All Walks in the Country.’’
3-2-1951
 
4-2-1951
 GAC "Instructions on Property Confiscations of the War Criminals, Traitors, Bureaucratic Capitalists, &Counterrevolutionaries"
5-2-1951
 GAC issues the Several Decisions Concerning National Minority Affairs
6-2-1951
 
7-2-1951
 CPGC Regulations on Punishing Counter-Revolutionaries
7-2-1951
 SU agrees to use two Soviet submarines and crews to train Chinese submariners
8-2-1951
 
9-2-1951
 2nd United Front Work Conference ends
9-2-1951
 US concludes a "Mutual Defence Agreement" with Taiwan
10-2-1951
 Enlarged PB meeting ?
11-2-1951
 The CPV make a counterattack in Hoengseong
12-2-1951
 Christian private Yanying university of Beijing is taken over.
13-2-1951
 the Battle of Chipyong-ni
14-2-1951
 National Agricultural Work Conferencemethods for expanding production targets 1951
15-2-1951
 19th army enters Korea. CPV are defeated at Chipyong-ni.
16-2-1951
 4 former GMD generals are executed in Guangzhou
17-2-1951
 
18-2-1951
 End of enlarged PB meeting
19-2-1951
 SU-PRC draft agreement to start building factories to repair and service planes
20-2-1951
 11th CPGCampaign against counterrevolutionaries begins. Statutes
21-2-1951
 GB no longer delivers oil to PRC
21-2-1951
 Peng meets Mao on the "grave difficulties" of the CPV
21-2-1951
 1st meeting world peace council in Berlin starts
22-2-1951
 
23-2-1951
 
24-2-1951
 
25-2-1951
 CC "directive on suppressing counter revolutionairies seriously, strictly & massively in big cities"
26-2-1951
 GAC "Bill of the People"s Republic of China Labour Insurance."
26-2-1951
 End of national agricultural conference
26-2-1951
 Peng meets Mao
26-2-1951
 1st meeting world peace council in Berlin ends
27-2-1951
 
28-2-1951
 Liu speaks at the 3rd Peoples" Congress of the Municipality of Beijing
28-2-1951
 Peng meets Mao
28-2-1951
 Peng Zhen is elected Mayor of Beijing
March
 End of inner party rectification campaign
March
 GACdecides to establish the ethnic work conference system
March
 separate currency of Manchuria is withdrawn. Renminbi official currency
March
 CCP sets up an International Department
March
 Liueight requirement for communist party membership
1-3-1951
 Gao Gang criticizes Regional officials at an expanded session of the NE PGC
1-3-1951
 Mao sends telegram to Stalin on air support
2-3-1951
 
3-3-1951
 PLA meeting to discuss the logistic work in Korea of the air force, artillery and armoured forces
3-3-1951
 PLA direction on strengthening the political work & education in military academies
4-3-1951
 
5-3-1951
Directive on Actively Guiding the Catholics & Protestants in the Movement of Independence & Reform
5-3-1951
 PRC makes formal charges against USA of using chemical warfare in Korea
6-3-1951
 GAC adopts regulations on state currency & barter trade
7-3-1951
 Executions of counter-revolutionaries in Hunan. 22 persons are executed
8-3-1951
 End of 1 st phase of 4th campaign
9-3-1951
 Mao Comment on Suppressing and Liquidating Counterrevolutionaries
10-3-1951
 
11-3-1951
 
12-3-1951
 Peng Zhen on Counterrevolutionaries
13-3-1951
 CPV are edged back and UN forces slowly move north
13-3-1951
 Huang Zuyan is murdered
14-3-1951
 RMRB editorial on Korean war
14-3-1951
 PRC and the SU sign a treaty regarding a coordinated international railway
15-3-1951
The southern capital, Seoul, is retaken by the UN
15-3-1951
CPV’s air force head headquarters is formally established in Andong. Stalin answers Mao
15-3-1951
Provisional regulations governing the management of hospitals and clinics.
16-3-1951
 
17-3-1951
 
18-3-1951
 Mao "plan to suppress counterrevolutionaries in Tianjin"
18-3-1951
 Mao On land reform
19-3-1951
 1st national conference on secondary education
20-3-1951
 
21-3-1951
 
22-3-1951
 
23-3-1951
 
24-3-1951
 US threatens the PRC with an extension ofthe war if the proposed truce is not accepted.
24-3-1951
 Mao Comment on Suppressing and Liquidating Counterrevolutionaries
24-3-1951
 Mass trial against Counterrevolutionaries in Beijing
25-3-1951
 
26-3-1951
 Deng "‘The entire Party should attach more importance to united front work’
27-3-1951
 
28-3-1951
 1st national organizational work conferenceparty membership
28-3-1951
 Peng Dehuai again requests SU air support for Chinese ground troops. SU still refuse
29-3-1951
 GAC promulgates a new decision on financial management
29-3-1951
 The Chinese rejects MacArthur"s offer for a truce in Korea
30-3-1951
 Mao " We Must Fully Promote the Suppression of Reactionaries So Every Family Is Informed"
30-3-1951
 Provisional measures for the implementation of the provisonal regulations on private enterprises
31-3-1951
 The armoured battalion command post CPV is formed
31-3-1951
 2nd phase of the 4th campaign
31-3-1951
 End of 1st national conference on secondary education
April
 1st National Conference of Secretaries-General convenes
April
 2,000 GMD soldiers cross in Yunnan the border into China
April
 Executive Committee meeting of the international Union of Students in Beijing
April
 Yiguandao (Way of Basic Unity) a counter-revolutionary and reactionary secret society is persucuted
1-4-1951
 CC "Instructions on the Work Issue in Tibet”
2-4-1951
 Mao Comment on Suppressing and Liquidating Counterrevolutionaries
3-4-1951
 The Chinese drama institute is set up in Beijing
4-4-1951
 Sino-Polish cultural agreement is signed
5-4-1951
 MPS distributes a manual "How to hold an accusation meeting" based on accusation meetings Yenan
6-4-1951
 The Party Committee of the CPV enlarged meeting
6-4-1951
 GACDecision relating to production and construction of state industry in 1951"
7-4-1951
 
8-4-1951
 
9-4-1951
 End of work conference
10-4-1951
 
11-4-1951
 47th army enters Korea
11-4-1951
 Douglas MacArthur is removed and replaced by Matthew Ridgway
12-4-1951
 
13-4-1951
 30 US jetfighters above Fujian
14-4-1951
 
15-4-1951
 
16-4-1951
 
17-4-1951
 GAC issues the decision on aviation industry construction
17-4-1951
 Shanxi proposes upgrading mutual aid and cooperative organizations to APC
18-4-1951
 GAC and CMC promulgate provisional custom law to take effect on may 1
18-4-1951
 Ministry of Heavy Industry sets up the Bureau of Aviation Industry,
19-4-1951
 GACpromulgates interim regulations on punishment for impairment of state currency
20-4-1951
 Mao sets targets for excitions of counterrevolutionairies
21-4-1951
U.S. Defence Department appoints a Military Assistance Advisory Group for Taiwan
21-4-1951
 The CPV wins the 4th Campaign in Korea
22-4-1951
 Launch of the 5th campaign of CPV
22-4-1951
 Tibet delegation headed by Ngo Ngawang Jigme arrives in Beijing
23-4-1951
 
24-4-1951
 
25-4-1951
 Second Sino-Indian Rice Trade Contract
25-4-1951
 Literary Gazette criticizes Wu Xunpicture
26-4-1951
 
27-4-1951
 Public Security arrest almost 3000 contra revolutionaries in Shanghai
27-4-1951
 Mao on land reform
28-4-1951
 DR Vietnam"s "representative" or "delegate." is installed in Beijing
28-4-1951
 A coordinated raid, targeting 16,855 individuals in Shanghai, Nanjing and fourteen other cities
29-4-1951
Central Government and local government of Tibet begin negotiations at the CMC
29-4-1951
 Usman Batur, and 25 of his leading fighters are publicly hanged in Urumchi
30-4-1951
 GAC Confiscation of foreign business begins with the requisition of property of Shell
30-4-1951
 PRC claims the US are using the CPV in Korea as guinea pigs for their chemical weapons
30-4-1951
 Mao "Commentary regarding the suppression of the counterrevolutionaries"
May
 Thought reform movement launched among writers
May
 CCP members should make up to 20% of the minor parties
May
 Li Mi, general GMD occupies 160 km of land on the Sino-Burmese border
May
 Heavy floods in Guangdong
May
 People’s Bank of China “The rural credit cooperative regulation (draft),”
May
 Central-South Bureau implements the DRM
1-5-1951
 Provisional Customs Regulations comes in effect
1-5-1951
CPV and North Koreans again advance near to Seoul
1-5-1951
On this Labour Day in several places executions take place
1-5-1951
 US Major Gen Chase arrives as the 1st chief of the MAAG in Taiwan.
1-5-1951
 > 229,990,000 demonstrate in China in support of the movement to resist America and aid Korea
2-5-1951
 2nd meeting Tibetan representatives
2-5-1951
 GAC several Resolutionson the Ethnic Affairs
3-5-1951
 
4-5-1951
 GAC on the division of powers and functions between centre and localities
4-5-1951
 GAC 83rd session import and export tariff schedule
5-5-1951
 GAC issues a directive concerning the reform of operas , drama and songs
6-5-1951
 Liu meets Roshchin
6-5-1951
 Stalin sends comments to Mao on peace treaty US with Japan
7-5-1951
 3rd meeting Tibetan representatives
7-5-1951
 National conference on propaganda work starts
8-5-1951
 Mao Comment on Suppressing and Liquidating Counterrevolutionaries
9-5-1951
 Deng delivers report on agrarian reform and zhen fan in southwest China
10-5-1951
 3rd national conference on public security work
10-5-1951
 4th meeting Tibetan representatives
10-5-1951
 RMRB publishes Mao’s attack on the film "The Life of Wu Xun"Underinstigation of Jiang Qing
10-5-1951
 GB stops export of rubber to PRC
10-5-1951
 CCDirective on the Question of Labour, Production & Employment of Landlords in Areas ….
11-5-1951
 CC “Instruction to organize & establish supplying and marketing cooperatives in newly liberalized areas
12-5-1951
 Eshan AC of Yi Ethnic Group in Yunnan is established
13-5-1951
 
14-5-1951
 UN takes additional measures agaisnt PRC
15-5-1951
 CPV and North Korean troops are driven out of Seoul
15-5-1951
 3rd national conference of public security work ends
16-5-1951
 Mao gives instructions on the "handling letters of the masses"
16-5-1951
 GAC issues directive against misuse of names etc., offending national minorities
17-5-1951
Dean Rusk sets the tone for U.S.-PRC policy for the next two decades
18-5-1951
 UN imposes an embargo on trade with PRC
19-5-1951
 CMC Decision on Strengthening the Volunteer Forces’ Logistics Tasks
20-5-1951
 RMRB editorial on Wu Xun
20-5-1951
 End of 5th campaign
20-5-1951
 Luo Ruiqing and Peng Zhen sentence 220 contrarevolutionairies the dead penalty
20-5-1951
 5th meeting Tibetan representatives
21-5-1951
 diplomatic relation with Pakistan is established
21-5-1951
6th meeting and End of negotiations with Tibetan representatives
21-5-1951
CC Directive on the Problem of Cleaning up the Mid-levels and Internal Levels,
22-5-1951
2nd mass executions in Beijing 421 shot dead 584 jailed
22-5-1951
 Third Sino-Indian Rice Trade Contract
22-5-1951
 Stalin sends new MIG"s to PRC
23-5-1951
 Agreement states that Tibet is part of PRC, but autonomous. The Seventeen-Article Treaty
23-5-1951
 Sun Yu, the author of the script and director of Wu Xun, publishes his self-criticism
23-5-1951
 National conference on propaganda work ends
24-5-1951
 GAC provisional Rules Governing the Inspection of Airplanes, Crews, Passengers,& Luggage upon Entry & Departure"
24-5-1951
 GAC issues provisional Rules Governing the Inspection of Trains…."
24-5-1951
 Kun-lun Film Studio announces the withdrawal of the picture Wu Xun
25-5-1951
 Zhu De issues a "Command to Advance to Tibet."
25-5-1951
 Marshall Xu Xiangqian goes by train to Moscow to negotiate an arms deal
26-5-1951
 Mao makes the "small range surround, small range blot" strategy in fighting in Korea
26-5-1951
 PLA forces the Dalai Lama to surrender his army to Beijing.
26-5-1951
 Log. Dep. of each MAC will be in charge of supporting all the special forces directly except PLAN/PLAAF
27-5-1951
 Mao instructs Peng Dehuai
28-5-1951
 
29-5-1951
 
30-5-1951
 Panchen Lama expresses his support for "The Seventeen-Article Treaty."
31-5-1951
 Mao sends update on situation in Korea to Stalin
June
 
June
 Jiang Qing leads investigative team to Wu Xun"s home town
1-6-1951
 "June first" campaign call for patriotism, arms donations, and relief aid
1-6-1951
 Chen Yun Calling upon the peasant to sell cotton to the state
2-6-1951
 
3-6-1951
 Kim meets secretly Mao & Zhou after the failure of the 5th campaign
4-6-1951
 Xu Xiangqian delegation arrives in Moscow asking for aid
5-6-1951
 Stalin orders to Mao that he should not make haste on negotiations with US on Korea. Gao Gang
6-6-1951
 Mao on Newspaper Work in RMRB
7-6-1951
 GAC order on handling letters/petitions from the people
7-6-1951
 GACReport on further intensification of the united-front work within the government organs
8-6-1951
 "Provisional Regulations for the Preservation of State Secrets"
9-6-1951
 Kim and Gao Gang visit Stalin to convince him to agree to the necessity of an Armistice
10-6-1951
 Peng Zhen farmers may use violence in order to realize land reform
11-6-1951
 The Central lnstitute of Nationalities in Beijing is established
12-6-1951
 Nehru says India accepts PRC sovereignty over Tibet
13-6-1951
 Dalai Lama and Zhang Jingwu (representative of the CPG) meet in Yatung.
13-6-1951
 Mao and Stalin communicate on Peace Talk
14-6-1951
 Mao and Stalin communicate on Peace Talk
15-6-1951
 Sino-Soviet Agreement on Supply of Equipment and Materials by the SU to PRC
15-6-1951
 Mao: "Comments on the work of suppressing and liquidating counterrevolutionaries"
15-6-1951
 The creation of the China-Polish Joint Shipping Company
15-6-1951
 Liberation Army Literature starts publication
16-6-1951
 National work conference of cultural troupes is held
17-6-1951
 
18-6-1951
 US owned properties in Shanghai are taken over
19-6-1951
 20th army enters the Korean war
20-6-1951
 End of visit Gao Gang to Stalin
21-6-1951
 Sino-Czechoslovak Trade Agreement for 1951
22-6-1951
 CPV launches attack on Seoul
22-6-1951
 90th meeting GAC regulations concerning counter revolutionaries
23-6-1951
 SU Ambassador to the U.N., Yakov Malik, calls for negotiations
24-6-1951
 Stalin to Mao on Malik
25-6-1951
 
26-6-1951
 Stalin sends telegram to Mao on MIG"s
27-6-1951
 GAC The Interim Measures Concerning the Control of Firearms,
28-6-1951
 RMRB Chen Boda "Mao"s theory on the Chinese revolution…"
29-6-1951
 UN proposal for peace negotiations
29-6-1951
 End of National work conference of cultural troupes
30-6-1951
 Intensive communication between Mao and Stalin about peace negotiations
30-6-1951
 the total number of Party members has surmounted to 5.8 million
30-6-1951
505-kilometre Chengdu-Chongqing Railway completed and opened to traffic.
July
 Liu Shaoqi Internal contradictions in state-owned factories and the basic task of trade union work
July
 Zhu De China"s Revolutionary Wars: In Commemoration of the 30th Anniversary of the CPC
July
 1st national Statistical conference
1-7-1951
 Liu "adress on the 30th anniversary CCP
1-7-1951
 Armistice negotiations begin in Korea
1-7-1951
 Deng "To Maintain Close Ties with the Masses Is Our Party"s Glorious Tradition," People"s China
1-7-1951
 Peng Zhen, "The Victory of Marxism and Leninism in China,"
1-7-1951
 Chen Boda "Mao on the Chinese revolution"
1-7-1951
 15th All- China Students" Congress is held in Beijing
2-7-1951
 CMC meeting on Korea
3-7-1951
 Liu criticizes Utopian agrarian socialism
4-7-1951
 
5-7-1951
 Mao to Stalin on peace talks
6-7-1951
7-7-1951
 
8-7-1951
 St Cmt of the CPPCC National Committee
9-7-1951
 
10-7-1951
 Korean Armistice negotiations start in Kaesong
10-7-1951
 Tianjin mass execution of277 Counterrevolutionaries.
11-7-1951
 
12-7-1951
 Sino-Hungarian cultural agreement is signed
13-7-1951
 Tianjin banns the "legion of Mary" as an imperialist-controlled secret organization
14-7-1951
 
15-7-1951
 Mao tells Stalin, China will not concede on the issue of POWs
16-7-1951
 MPS issues " Temporary Regulations Governing the Urban Population."
16-7-1951
 Zhang Jingwu meets Dalai Lama
17-7-1951
 
18-7-1951
 all property belonging to American Companies in Shanghai are seized
19-7-1951
 
20-7-1951
 Huai River Conservancy Project is finished
20-7-1951
 Mao elaborates on Mao Zedong Thought:
20-7-1951
 Mao writes Stalin on foreign troops withdrawal
20-7-1951
 Chen Yun improve the work of AFIC
21-7-1951
 
22-7-1951
 17members of PRC embassy to Indonesia may not enter "violation of diplomatic courtesy".
23-7-1951
 RMRB starts publications of historical documents of Wu Xun
24-7-1951
 Zhou meets Roshchin
24-7-1951
 Measures for dealing with Christian organizations which receive USsubsidies
25-7-1951
Northern Korea and PRC agree an agenda for the ceasefire negotiations with the UN
26-7-1951
 
27-7-1951
 15,000 GMD troops have entered from NE Burma
28-7-1951
 
29-7-1951
 Dong Biwu announces the "founding of Research Institute of Cultural and History of the SC
30-7-1951
 Mao writes Zhang Yuanji on Tibet
31-7-1951
 San Fan follows the DRM. It starts in North East China
31-7-1951
 Zhu De on the 24th anniversary of the PLA
Augustus
 Central Political and Legal Cadres School is established
1-8-1951
 Yunnan Nationalities Institute is established
2-8-1951
 MPSRegulations on Control over passengers travelling to and from Hong Kong & Macao
2-8-1951
 MPS Regulations on the exit and entry national border of overseas Chinese
3-8-1951
 Luo Ruiqing work report on the suppression of counterrevolutionaries
4-8-1951
 
5-8-1951
 Heavy fight between GMD and PLA near border of Burma
6-8-1951
 16th meeting of CPGC. Bo Yibo reports on state budget
7-8-1951
 
8-8-1951
 GAC Provisional Regulation for taxation of Urban Housing, Land & Property
9-8-1951
 
10-8-1951
 97th session of the GAC reform the education system
10-8-1951
 CMC meeting
11-8-1951
 
12-8-1951
 Zhou meets Roshchin on San Francisco Peace Treaty
13-8-1951
 Mao sends Mao telegram on armistice
14-8-1951
 
15-8-1951
 Zhou criticizes the San Francisco Peace Treaty
16-8-1951
 
17-8-1951
 Dalai Lama returns to Lhasa after approving 17 point agreement
17-8-1951
 2 foreigners are executed in Beijing. They were accused of planning to kill Mao on October 1, 1950
18-8-1951
 GAC ‘‘Tentative Regulations on the Invitation of Foreign Advisers and Experts’’
18-8-1951
 US launches the Summer Offensive
18-8-1951
 CMC meeting
19-8-1951
 A primary group of 375 students are sent to the SU
19-8-1951
 Longsheng Multi-National AC in Guangxi is established
20-8-1951
 Sino-Hungarian accord on the exchange of films
21-8-1951
 
22-8-1951
 American aircraft bombs the residence of Chinese negotiation representatives
22-8-1951
 mass execution of 236 counter-revolutionaries
23-8-1951
 
24-8-1951
 
25-8-1951
 
26-8-1951
 
27-8-1951
 
28-8-1951
 CC decides to make October 25 the anniversary of the war to resist US aggression.
28-8-1951
 StalinMao should not hastily conclude the agreement
29-8-1951
 
30-8-1951
 
31-8-1951
 Gao Gang attacks "old personnel" who carry over the corrupt ways of GMD
September
 GAC Provisional regulations on budgets and final accounts
September
 Heavy floods in North China.
September
 Liu Shaoqi Some questions concerning cooperatives
September
 Riot of 20.000 people in Pingliang district in Gansu
1-9-1951
 President Truman suspends PRC’s most-favoured-nation tariff status
1-9-1951
 6th Campaign, which was to commence in September is cancelled.
2-9-1951
 
3-9-1951
 12th CPGC meting
3-9-1951
 CPGC promulgates Provisional regulations for law courts and the procuratorate
3-9-1951
 CPGCProvisional Regulations Governing the Organisation of People"s Courts
3-9-1951
 CPGC Zhou speaks about ceasefire Korea
4-9-1951
 14 public properties of the former French Concession in Shanghai are taken over
5-9-1951
 
6-9-1951
 3rd mass execution in Beijing 318 killed
7-9-1951
 twelve professors from Beijing University ask for instructions regarding the reform of intellectuals
8-9-1951
 Peace Treaty between Allied Powers and Japan is signed in San Francisco
8-9-1951
 US-Japan mutual security treaty is signed
8-9-1951
 Mao asks Stalin for more SU advisors in Korea
9-9-1951
 PLA troops reach Lhasa
9-9-1951
 Nationalization of French possessions in Shanghai
10-9-1951
 Mao Comment on Suppressing and Liquidating Counterrevolutionaries
11-9-1951
 4th national congress on public security starts
12-9-1951
 
13-9-1951
 GAC Interim Regulations Concerning the Vehicle and Vessel Usage License Plate Tax
14-9-1951
 GAC promulgates regulations respecting the immunities and privileges of foreign diplomats
15-9-1951
 Mao orders PLAAF units to participate more fully in the war
16-9-1951
 Zhou Yang. "Mao Zedong"s Teachings and Contemporary Art." People"s China
17-09-1951
 4th national congress on public security ends
18-9-1951
 Zhou states peace treaty with Japan is invalid
18-9-1951
 Peng Dehuai asks Kim for permission to “raise funds” for Korean food,
18-9-1951
 Mao Comment on Suppressing and Liquidating Counterrevolutionaries
19-9-1951
 
20-9-1951
 1st national conference on mutual aid and cooperation
20-9-1951
 MOE organizes 1st national conference on minority education
20-9-1951
 SU gives PRC new grant for war in Korea
21-9-1951
 Liu Zhen talks with Peng about forward basing Chinese MiGs and resulting risks.
22-9-1951
 
23-9-1951
 
24-9-1951
 Zhu De, Unify the training plan and speed up the building of a modern and regularized army
25-9-1951
 
26-9-1951
 GAC Directive on investigation into the circumstances of the application of the Marriage Law
26-9-1951
 Agrarian reform basically completed across country.
27-9-1951
 141 contrarevolutionairies are executed in Shanghai
28-9-1951
 End of1st national conference on minority education
29-9-1951
 Zhouon “Remoulding Intellectuals” in a meeting for 3000 professors and education staffmembers
29-9-1951
 US launches the Autumn Offensive
30-9-1951
 1st national conference on mutual aid and cooperation ends
30-9-1951
 Jiang Qing joins land reform team near Wuhan until end of year
O
October
 Sino SU Agreement rendering technical assistance to PRC in organising repair of aircraft..
1-10-1951
 Mao Commentaries on suppressing counter revolutionaries
1-10-1951
 Parade
1-10-1951
 GAC decision on the reform of educational system
1-10-1951
 Enlarged meeting of the PB
1-10-1951
 Autonomous Banner of Oroqen Ethnic Group in Inner Mongolia is established
2-10-1951
 
3-10-1951
 
4-10-1951
 Mao to Stalin on militairy aid
5-10-1951
 Liang Shuming "What changes I have undergone in the past two years".
5-10-1951
 Enlarged PB meeting on reducing government spending
6-10-1951
 
7-10-1951
 
8-10-1951
 
9-10-1951
 
10-10-1951
 
11-10-1951
 publication of Mao Zedong’s Selected Works begins
12-10-1951
 several foreign catholic priests are expelled
12-10-1951
 GAC sets up a committee to study the language of the national minorities
13-10-1951
 
14-10-1951
 
15-10-1951
 
16-10-1951
 
17-10-1951
 
18-10-1951
 114 intellectuals return from the US to PRC
18-10-1951
 Mao on the Peace talks
19-10-1951
 
20-10-1951
 
21-10-1951
 The People"s Supreme Court is founded.Shen Junru president
22-10-1951
 
23-10-1951
 3rd Session of the 1st National Committee of the CPPCC. Mao launches San Fan
23-10-1951
 Mao on world peace
23-10-1951
 Dalai Lama sends Mao telegram expressing his support for the "Seventeen-Article Treaty."
23-10-1951
 Increase Production and Practice Economy Campaign
24-10-1951
 The truce talks resume in Panmunjom
25-10-1951
 The main force of the 18th Army arrives in Lhasaunder the command of Zhang Guohua.
26-10-1951
 GAC sets up the Chinese character reform research committee
26-10-1951
 Ren Bishi dies at the age of 46
26-10-1951
 Zhu De The decisive role of skills in building the armoured force
27-10-1951
 Dalai Lama ratifies pact
28-10-1951
 
29-10-1951
 
30-10-1951
 
31-10-1951
 Lin Biao comes down with tuberculosis
November
 Logistical conference in Shenyang
1-11-1951
 End of 3rd Session of the 1st National Committee of the CPPCC
2-11-1951
 
3-11-1951
 
4-11-1951
 
5-11-1951
 13th CPGC
5-11-1951
 CC issues Directives on Eliminating Counter-Revolutionaries and Carrying Out…."
5-11-1951
 PRC starts Islands Campaign in Korea
5-11-1951
 UN rejects PRC representation
6-11-1951
 
7-11-1951
 
8-11-1951
 Sino- East German cultural agreement is signed
9-11-1951
 
10-11-1951
 
11-11-1951
 Zhu De Build the navy defend our coast
12-11-1951
 CC “Instruction on adjusting commerce,”
13-11-1951
 
14-11-1951
 Mao to Stalin on peace talk
15-11-1951
 
16-11-1951
 FLAC meeting decides on program of political education for writers
17-11-1951
 Nagqu (Tibet) earthquake magnitude 8,4
18-11-1951
 Stalin again sends message that Mao should not accelerate the peace talk.
19-11-1951
 China supports a Soviet peace proposal to the UN on nuclear weapons
20-11-1951
 Mao hails pact in message to Dalai Lama
20-11-1951
 Mao orders party leaders at every level to send out inspection teams
21-11-1951
 
22-11-1951
 more than 28.4 metric tons of books are destroyed in Shanghai
23-11-1951
 Start of reform movement in literature and art (Zheng feng)
23-11-1951
 GAC several decisions regarding minorities
24-11-1951
 
25-11-1951
 Chinese People"s National Committee for Defence of Children is founded
26-11-1951
peace proposals are abandoned
26-11-1951
 CC requires the whole Party to increase production & adopt economy with the aim to support the CVA
27-11-1951
 GAC provisional rules on the exit, entry & stay of aliens in China
28-11-1951
 NCNA reports the entry of PLA troops in Tibetan city of Gyantse
29-11-1951
 CC issues Directive on Ideological Remoulding and Organizational Clean-up in Schools
30-11-1951
 Mao "On the struggle against the "San Fan" and the "Wu Fan""
30-11-1951
 Arts rectification movement is started
December
 Liu on tour
December
 Li Lisan replaced by Lai Ruoyu as chairperson of the ACFTU
December
 Mao on transition
1-12-1951
 CC Formally launches the San Fan. Austerity Inspection Commission is formed
2-12-1951
 
3-12-1951
 
4-12-1951
 PLA enters Yatung
5-12-1951
 
6-12-1951
 GAC adopts directive to begin San Fan on a national scale
6-12-1951
 3rd Sino-SU agreement on conditions of SU specialists in China
7-12-1951
 CC "Instructions to Extensively Develop the Anti-Bribery Struggle"
8-12-1951
 Mao calls for extreme measures to deal with the problem of San Fan
9-12-1951
 
10-12-1951
 San Fan campaign starts in central government organizations in Beijing
11-12-1951
 Mao calls for measures within the PLA
12-12-1951
 Mao sends telegram to Panchen Gnoertehni
13-12-1951
 
14-12-1951
 MaoDecisions on Mutual Aid and Cooperation (not published)
15-12-1951
 Mao writes Liu
16-12-1951
Unrest in Xinjiang
17-12-1951
 
18-12-1951
 Mao "Strike surely at counter revolutionaries"
19-12-1951
 
20-12-1951
 
21-12-1951
 2nd session of enlarged meeting of the commission of nationalities affairs
21-12-1951
 GAC Provisional Regulations Governing the Control of Book& Periodical Publishing, Printing& Distri
22-12-1951
 
23-12-1951
 
24-12-1951
 CC denounces practice of sending greetings, silk banners, and gifts to CC
24-12-1951
 National Finance Conference. Chen Yun talks about San Fan
25-12-1951
 GAC forms the Chinese Character Reform Research Committee
25-12-1951
 Yushu Tibetan AP in Qinghai is established
26-12-1951
 
27-12-1951
 Mao in Tainjin
28-12-1951
 National Committee of the CPPCC issues a directive endorsing the San Fan campaign
29-12-1951
 Mao leaves Tianjin
30-12-1951
 Mao orders monthly reports from the county level upwards to be sent directly to Beijing
30-12-1951
 RMRB reports on Liu and Zhang case
31-12-1951
 CC "Amended Directive on the Question of the Leading Classes in the Chinese Revolution"