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

Timeline 1953

Date Event
January
Mao "Directive on the Work of the Ministry of Geology""
1-1-1953
First 5 Year Plan goes into action
1-1-1953
the handing over of the North Eastern Chang-chun Railway
1-1-1953
Aba Tibetan and Qiang AP in Sichuan  is established
1-1-1953
Longling Multi-national AC in Guanxi is established
1-1-1953
Central Compilation and Translation Bureau of the CCP is founded
2-1-1953
GAC amends "Labour Insurance Regulations" 
3-1-1953
 
4-1-1953
 
5-1-1953
New San-fan campaign against bureaucracy, commandism, and violations of the law.
6-1-1953
Liu meets Stalin and leaders of Indonesian Communist party
7-1-1953
end of visit Liu to SU
8-1-1953
End of anti trotskyist campaign
9-1-1953
 
10-1-1953
 
11-1-1953
Liu back in Beijing
12-1-1953
A B-29 on a leaflet-dropping mission over Manchuria is taken down. 
13-1-1953
20th CPGC Council  Constitution & NPC
14-1-1953
21th CPGC
14-1-1953
Administrative Committees replace the military and political commitees
15-1-1953
Nationalities Publishing House is set up in Beijing 
15-1-1953
Mao criticizes new tax law
16-1-1953
Postal and telecommunications agreement between PRC and Mongolia is signed
17-1-1953
 
18-1-1953
 
19-1-1953
Sino-Rumanian Goods Exchange and Payment Agreement for 1953
20-1-1953
Mao and Zhou speak on the elections and constitution on CPGC meeting
20-1-1953
Dwight D. Eisenhower is sworn in as president. he served untill 1961
21-1-1953
 
22-1-1953
 
23-1-1953
an F-86 of the 16th Fighter Squadron is shot down
24-1-1953
Xishuangbanna AP of Dai Ethnic Group in Yunnan is established
25-1-1953
Liannan AC of Yao Ethnic Group in Guangdong is established
26-1-1953
 
27-1-1953
 
28-1-1953
 
29-1-1953
 
30-1-1953
Hu Feng under attack in Literary gazette
31-1-1953
 
February
2nd National Conference on Supervisory Work Sanfan
February
Mao on his first South China trip  Sun Yatsen mausoleum in Nanjing
February
Mao sends a scientific delegation, headed by Qian SanSanqiang,to Moscow.
February
1st National Anti-Illiteracy Work Conference
1-2-1953
GAC “Directive of the concerning the thorough enforcement of the Marriage Law”
2-2-1953
 
3-2-1953
US 7th Fleet will no longer be employed to shield PRC from possible Nationalist attacks
4-2-1953
4th Session of the 1st National Committee of the CPPCC
5-2-1953
PB meeting on finance
6-2-1953
CC “Directive on Catholic Work”
7-2-1953
End of 4th Session of the 1st National Committee of the CPPCC
8-2-1953
300 GMD troops and local troops attack Loikaw in Burma
9-2-1953
 
10-2-1953
 
11-2-1953
22nd CPGC put into effect the NPC election act & and comment of Deng Xiaoping
12-2-1953
23rd CPGC
12-2-1953
Jiang Jieshi declares GMD forces could attack PRC at any time without U.N. sanction
13-2-1953
 
14-2-1953
Stalin sends Mao telegram on the 3rd anniversay of  the Sino-Soviet Treaty
15-2-1953
CC adopts "Resolution on the Mutual Aid of Agricultural Products."
15-2-1953
 5 US planes shot down
16-2-1953
 
17-2-1953
 
18-2-1953
 
19-2-1953
Muli Tibetan AC in Sichuan is established
19-2-1953
Supplementary Directive CC on the Movement for the Thorough Implementation of the Marriage law
20-2-1953
 
21-2-1953
Mao inspects naval fleet
22-2-1953
UN general Clarke writes Kim & Peng, asking to exchange POWs who are ill or injured
22-2-1953
Zhou accuses US of sponsering raids by GMD and turning Japan into a military base
22-2-1953
Zhou  visits Soviet troops in Lushun
23-2-1953
Zhou, Chen Yun, Deng accept SU  industrial growth figures
24-2-1953
Sino-Mongolian Non-Trading Credit Agreement
24-2-1953
End of Mao"s inspection tour
24-2-1953
Scienctist delegation headed by Qian Sanqiang visits SU
25-2-1953
 
26-2-1953
 
27-2-1953
 
28-2-1953
Military Administrative Committee are demoted to Administrative Committee status
March
Ho Chih Min invades Laos
March
An uprisings involving 10,000 peasants is reported in Yunnan
March
Agreement PRC-Japan on return of Japanese nationals excluding war criminals
1-3-1953
Promulgation of Electoral Law of the People"s Republic of China
2-3-1953
 
3-3-1953
RMRB "Explanation of the Draft Electoral Law for the PRC NPC" by Deng
4-3-1953
 
5-3-1953
Death of Stalin
6-3-1953
Mao "on Stalin"s death"
7-3-1953
Zhou leads delegation to SU
8-3-1953
CC directs reduction in ambitious production quotas
8-3-1953
Zhou arrives in Moscow
8-3-1953
1st batch of women pilots trained hold a ceremony in Beijing to celebrate their 1st flight.
8-3-1953
Mao Letter to Huang Yanpei and Chen Shutong 
9-3-1953
Zhou appears on Lenin"s tomb in Red Square along with Soviet leaders at Stalin"s funeral
10-3-1953
CC adopts a resolution on strengthening Party leadership over government work
11-3-1953
 
12-3-1953
 
13-3-1953
 
14-3-1953
Sino-Pakistani Cotton and Coal Agreement
15-3-1953
 
16-3-1953
CC directs reduction of rash and impetuous tendency & protect individual farmers
16-3-1953
Mao "Critizise Han chauvinism"
17-3-1953
Zhou visits Prague & attends funeral of president Gottwald, 
18-3-1953
 
19-3-1953
Mao directs that “five excesses": be curbed in districts and townships:
19-3-1953
SU writes draft letters to Mao, Kim and UN delegation on Korea
19-3-1953
 
20-3-1953
Zhou ends visit Prague
21-3-1953
Protocol to the Sino-Soviet Agreement Concerning the Granting of Credit to China
21-3-1953
Zhou meets the whole Soviet leadership and talks about ending the Korean war
22-3-1953
 
23-3-1953
 
24-3-1953
End of visit Zhou 
24-3-1953
Reorganization of FLAC
25-3-1953
Burma lodges a complaint with the UN over the issue of the invasion of GMD troops
26-3-1953
 
27-3-1953
 
28-3-1953
236 contra revolutionairies are sentenced to death in Shanghai
29-3-1953
 
30-3-1953
Sino- Hungary Barter and Payment Agreement for 1953
30-3-1953
Zhou Statement concerning the problem of Korean armistice negotiations.  POW
31-3-1953
CC “To pay much attention to handicraft industry,”
April
1st-7th Military Tribunals of Shanghai Control Commission
April
Drought in Central China
1-4-1953
 
2-4-1953
 
3-4-1953
1st Rural Work Conference
3-4-1953
Mao "Instruction on Leadership Work of Health Departments of Military Commissions"
4-4-1953
 
5-4-1953
 
6-4-1953
GAC Directive on National Census and Registration
7-4-1953
F86 shot down. The pilot is POW untill 1955
7-4-1953
Lancang AC of Lahu Ethnic Group in Yunnan is established
8-4-1953
 
9-4-1953
SU representative at the UN, proposes a peace pact between GB,PRC,France, SU & US
10-4-1953
Truce talk agreement on the exchange of the ill and injured POWS
10-4-1953
Mao Zedong Xuanji volume 3 published
11-4-1953
2nd National Judicial Work Conference
12-4-1953
 
13-4-1953
 
14-4-1953
 
15-4-1953
2nd National Women"s Congress in Beijing
16-4-1953
 
17-4-1953
GAC issues "Directive on Dissuading Peasants from Blind Influx into Cities"
18-4-1953
 
19-4-1953
 
20-4-1953
The prisoner exchange begins at Panmujom
21-4-1953
 
22-4-1953
 
23-4-1953
UN accepts resolution to investigate accusations about bacteriological  warfare
23-4-1953
UN deals with Burma"s complaints on GMD troops 
23-4-1953
End of 1st rural work conference
23-4-1953
End of 2nd National Women"s Congress
24-4-1953
 
25-4-1953
2nd National Judicial Work Conference ends
26-4-1953
Peace talks resume
27-4-1953
 
28-4-1953
 
29-4-1953
 
30-4-1953
Sino-German Goods Exchange and Payment Agreement for 1953
30-4-1953
CPV decides to launch the Summer Counterattack Campaign.
30-4-1953
3rd Plenary Session of the 6th Executive Committee of the ACFTU 
May
Zhen fan ends
May
PLA  8341 unit is formed
May
Gao Kang in Moscow
1-5-1953
 
2-5-1953
7th national congress of ACFTU in Beijing
3-5-1953
 
4-5-1953
 
5-5-1953
 
6-5-1953
 
7-5-1953
Sino-Czechoslovak Goods Exchange and Payment Agreement for 1953
8-5-1953
Burma wants to negotiate about GMD troops
9-5-1953
 
10-5-1953
 
11-5-1953
End of 7th national congress of ACFTU in Beijing
11-5-1953
1st National Representative Assembly of the CIA is held in Beijing
11-5-1953
Mao talks with Kuznetsov and Likhachev
12-5-1953
 
13-5-1953
US planes bombs irrigation dams in N Korea and ten of thousands of civilians drown
14-5-1953
 
15-5-1953
PRC and the SU sign the document on the aid to be given to PRC by the SU
15-5-1953
FEC is reorganized
16-5-1953
 
17-5-1953
PB meeting about educational work
18-5-1953
 
19-5-1953
Mao rebukes Liu & Yang Shangkun for issuing orders in the name of the CC without authorization
20-5-1953
 
21-5-1953
 
22-5-1953
Zhou meets Burmese delegation
23-5-1953
 
24-5-1953
 
25-5-1953
Enlarged PB meeting
25-5-1953
Sino-Polish Goods Exchange and Payments Agreement for 1953
26-5-1953
 
27-5-1953
PB  approves the report  of Li Weihan on "Public and Private Relations of Capitalist Industries"
28-5-1953
 
29-5-1953
PLA captures Dalushan islands
30-5-1953
CBA holds inaugural conference in Beijing
31-5-1953
 
June
Revolt of Jiugong Dao sect. Government buildings attacked
June
Li Mi"s troops (GMD) are repatriated to Taiwan.
June
3rd Enlarged Conference of the Nationalities Affairs Commision
1-6-1953
Disturbances break out in Czechoslovakia. 
1-6-1953
CMC implements unified military training plan
2-6-1953
 
3-6-1953
CBA is set up
4-6-1953
“Agreement on the SU Technical Aid to China Regarding Chinese Navy’s Warship…. 
5-6-1953
Sino-Finnish Goods Exchange and Payments Agreement for 1953
5-6-1953
Sino-French Trade Agreement
5-6-1953
Foreign Affairs conference Zhou on Korea
6-6-1953
 
7-6-1953
 
8-6-1953
The truce talks reach the agreement on the settlement of POWs
9-6-1953
CPV repels the advance of South Koreas forces at Kumsong
9-6-1953
Central Safeguard Regiment is established Task safeguarding the national leaders
9-6-1953
Redraft of the first 5 year plan
10-6-1953
the 2nd ACYF helds conference in Beijing.
11-6-1953
 
12-6-1953
 
13-6-1953
National Conference on financial and economic Work
13-6-1953
PB meeting 
14-6-1953
 
15-6-1953
Enlarged PB meeting transition to socialism
15-6-1953
CPV launches an offensive against the U.S. lst Corps 
15-6-1953
SU troops crush workers rebellion in East Germany.
15-6-1953
End of ACYF conference
16-6-1953
 
17-6-1953
end of visit scientists in SU
18-6-1953
 
19-6-1953
 
20-6-1953
 
21-6-1953
 
22-6-1953
Floods in Hunan
22-6-1953
CPV launches an offensive against Seoul
23-6-1953
2nd National Congress of the NDYL
24-6-1953
CPV forces launch a major offensive aimed at the S Korean troops.
25-6-1953
4th UFWD Conference starts
25-6-1953
Chen Yun The system for distributing grain
26-6-1953
 
27-6-1953
 
28-6-1953
Zhou writes Mao on the "fundamental tasks of the period of transition" 
29-6-1953
PB meeting transition
30-6-1953
 
30-6-1953
At midnight, China"s first national census.The population figure reaches 601,938,035
July
International Railway Through Transport Conference is held in Moscow
July
CC  Circular on the Writing of Reference Material by Xinhua News Agency Correspondents
July
"5 Too many" campaign 
1-7-1953
the Chengyu Railway is open to traffic 
1-7-1953
Zhangjiachuan Hui AC in Gansu is established
2-7-1953
End of 2nd National Congress of the 2nd National Congress of the NDYL
3-7-1953
Peng Dehuai on armistice negotiations
4-7-1953
 
5-7-1953
 
6-7-1953
Sino-British Commercial Agreement
6-7-1953
Zhangjiachuan AC of Hui Ethnic Group in Gansu is established
7-7-1953
GAC Directive on Issuance of Farming Credit
8-7-1953
RMRB enormous drought in South West China
9-7-1953
Mao "On state capitalism"
9-7-1953
Beria is arrested in Moscow, dismissed from all his positions and excluded from the party.
10-7-1953
ACFTU decides the transition to socialism is the immediate task
11-7-1953
 
12-7-1953
 
13-7-1953
CPV launches the Kinjo Campaign
14-7-1953
 
15-7-1953
GMD raid into DongShan Island 
15-7-1953
First Automobile Group, commonly known as FAW starts in Jilin
16-7-1953
RMRB announces a campaign against Catholic "imperialist elements"
16-7-1953
Sino- Hungarian agreement on trade in postal services and telecommunications 
17-7-1953
 
18-7-1953
 
19-7-1953
 
20-7-1953
 
21-7-1953
 
22-7-1953
4th UFWD Conference ends
23-7-1953
 
24-7-1953
Dehong AP of Dai and Jingpo Ethnic Groups in Yunnan is established
25-7-1953
 
26-7-1953
 
27-7-1953
Armistice is signed in Korea
28-7-1953
 
28-7-1953
Mao meets SU ambassador Kuznetsov
29-7-1953
PB meeting
30-7-1953
MPS  the regulations for the appointment of "people"s supervision correspondents."
31-7-1953
Peng Dehuai receives the National Flag order of merit 1st class from Kim in Pyongyang
August
General line for transition to socialism" supersedes "new democracy"
August
3rd disarmament of the PLA
August
1st National Urban Construction Conference  (before 12-08)
August
GAC: MPH should assist the public in birth control
August
Gao Gang in Moscow  He meets Khrushchev. He stays for 2 days
1-8-1953
assignment of college and university graduates according to plan
1-8-1953
PLA wants to reorganize the overstaffed command system&reduce the number of troops
2-8-1953
 
3-8-1953
 
4-8-1953
 
5-8-1953
"Operation Big Switch" begins at Panmunjom, Korea
6-8-1953
 
7-8-1953
 
8-8-1953
 
9-8-1953
Protocol Supplementary to the 1953 Sino-East German Agreement 
10-8-1953
PB meeting 
11-8-1953
GAC issues "Ways for Contraceptive Measures and Induced Abortion."
11-8-1953
Peng Dehuai is welcomed back from Korean War in Beijing
12-8-1953
End of National Conference on financial and economic Work
12-8-1953
SU explodes his first hydrogen bomb
13-8-1953
 
14-8-1953
 
15-8-1953
 
16-8-1953
 
17-8-1953
 
18-8-1953
 
19-8-1953
 
20-8-1953
Sino-Mongolian Goods Exchange and Payment Agreement for 1953
20-8-1953
The PLAN Submarine Academy is established in Qingdao
21-8-1953
China"s Young Pioneers comes into being
21-8-1953
CMC meeting
22-8-1953
 
23-8-1953
 
24-8-1953
 
25-8-1953
 
26-8-1953
Mao "Address at the Establishment of the Institute of Military Engineering"
27-8-1953
 
28-8-1953
the movement of improving production while practising economy starts
29-8-1953
 
30-8-1953
 
31-8-1953
US might declare war if PRC renews Korean conflict or sends forces into Indochina
September
2nd National Conference of Literary and Art Workers" Representatives
September
A rainwater and ice-snow melt water debris flow in Guxiang
September
3ird Enlarged Meeting Ethnic Affairs Commission of the CPG
1-9-1953
The Harbin Institute of Military Engineering is established
1-9-1953
Nehru writes Zhou on Tibet
2-9-1953
 
3-9-1953
 
4-9-1953
CMC meeting
5-9-1953
 
6-9-1953
 
7-9-1953
Mao talks to representatives from the democratic parties and industry and commerce
8-9-1953
49th meeting (enlarged) of the St C of the CPPCC
9-9-1953
 
10-9-1953
 
11-9-1953
End of 49th meeting
12-9-1953
24th Session of the CPGC
13-9-1953
PRC sends telegram to the Secretary-General of UN to be admitted
13-9-1953
Khrushchev is elected first secretary of the CPSU CC
14-9-1953
25th session of the CPGC Chen Yun overcome deficiencies in our financial and economic work
15-9-1953
UN turns down PRC"s efforts to join the United Nations
15-9-1953
26th Session of the CPGC in Beijing
16-9-1953
27th CPGC
17-9-1953
 
18-9-1953
 28th Session CPGC
19-9-1953
 
20-9-1953
 
21-9-1953
Sino-Ceylonese Rubber and Rice Contracts 
21-9-1953
CC convenes 2nd National Organization Work Conference 
22-9-1953
 
23-9-1953
2nd Congress of Literary and Arts Workers.  FLAC is founded
24-9-1953
PLA enlarges garrisons in southern and western Tibet
25-9-1953
RMRB publicizes general line for the transitional period proposed by Mao
26-9-1953
 
27-9-1953
 
28-9-1953
Zhou tells PRC wants diplomatic relations with Japan, Japan-Taiwan relations have to stop
28-9-1953
SU proposes meeting SU, US, France, GB and China on Indochina
29-9-1953
Supreme People"s Court issues a circular about informing families of  executed persons
29-9-1953
Deng holds a banquet to honor the Tibetan, Qamdo & Sichuan delegation
30-9-1953
 
October
GMD navy seizes Polish tanker Praca
October
PB meeting about public health 
October
Several meetings on Tibet
October
2nd National Civil Affairs Conference 
1-10-1953
CC declares a new sub-stage in history, the transition to socialism "new general line"
1-10-1953
Parade
1-10-1953
Mutual defence treaty between Korea and USA
1-10-1953
Gannan Tibetan AP in Gansu  is established
2-10-1953
Enlarged PB meeting on State monopoly for the purchasing and marketing of grain.
3-10-1953
Sino-Hungarian agreement on scientific and technological cooperation
4-10-1953
 
5-10-1953
 
6-10-1953
End of 2nd Congress
7-10-1953
 
8-10-1953
Zhou supports SU proposal to call 5 power conference to ease international tension
9-10-1953
FLAC meeting
10-10-1953
National conference on Planned Purchasing and marketing of Grain
10-10-1953
ACFIC meeting
11-10-1953
 
12-10-1953
End of National conference on Planned Purchasing and marketing of Grain
13-10-1953
CC "Decisions on Institution of Planned Grain Procurement and Planned Grain Supply"
14-10-1953
 
15-10-1953
Mao emphasizes the importance of the mutual aid maneuverings
15-10-1953
Sino-Hungarian agreement on radio cooperation
16-10-1953
PB adopts the "Resolution on the Planned Purchase and Supplying of Provisions."
17-10-1953
 
18-10-1953
Mao"s Speech at reception of Tibetan delegation
19-10-1953
 
20-10-1953
 
21-10-1953
 
22-10-1953
Mao  Letter to Yang Shangkun 
23-10-1953
ACFIC is established
24-10-1953
 
25-10-1953
 
26-10-1953
Third Mutual Aid and Cooperation Work Conference
27-10-1953
End of National Organization Work Conference
28-10-1953
 
29-10-1953
Sino-Japanese Trade Agreement of 1953
30-10-1953
 
31-10-1953
 
November
After almost a year in Moscow Jiang Qing returns to Beijing
November
3rd National conference of handicraft cooperatives
November
Report on the marriage movement
1-11-1953
 
2-11-1953
Eisenhower orders U.S. Navy no longer to prevent Chiang"s forces from attacking PRC
3-11-1953
 
4-11-1953
 
4-11-1953
CC calls to criticize inner Party bourgeois thought
5-11-1953
End of Third Mutual Aid and Cooperation Work Conference
6-11-1953
 
7-11-1953
Evacuation of GMD troops in Burma starts
8-11-1953
190th meeting GAC
9-11-1953
 
10-11-1953
 
11-11-1953
Zhu De Tasks of inspection of party discipline in the transition period
12-11-1953
Delegation led by Kim arrives in Beijing
12-11-1953
End of ACFIC Conference
12-11-1953
Regulations concerning Rectifying the Phenomenon of Wilful Reprinting of Books
13-11-1953
 
14-11-1953
 
15-11-1953
CC adopts "Resolution on the National Enforcement of the Planned Purchase of Oils."
16-11-1953
Zhou and Kim sign secret technological cooperation pact
17-11-1953
 
18-11-1953
 
19-11-1953
North Korea signed 10-year aid pact with Peking.
20-11-1953
 
21-11-1953
GAC issues executive order to implement planned purchase and supply of grain. Except in Tibet
22-11-1953
 
23-11-1953
Sino-North Korean Economic and Cultural Cooperation Agreement
23-11-1953
Mao sends Ho a telegraph to persuade him to accept a peaceful solution of demarcation
24-11-1953
GAC promulgates the standard for illiteracy elimination
25-11-1953
Korean delegations leaves
26-11-1953
RMRB ""Seriously Carry Out the Collective Leadership System."
26-11-1953
GAC "Directive concerning the Reorganization & Improvement of Primary School Education"
26-11-1953
PLA withdraws troops from Tibet due to food shortage
27-11-1953
 
28-11-1953
Chen Yun Increasing the production and sale of non-staple foods
29-11-1953
 
30-11-1953
Sino-Indonesian Trade Agreement
30-11-1953
Reception for new SU ambassador Yudin
December
"Economic Construction Period" campaign starts
December
enlarged meeting of the PB
December
3rd NCNA National Conference
December
National Consultative Conference
1-12-1953
 
2-12-1953
Dalai Lama refuses to fly PRC flag over Potala 
3-12-1953
Eisenhower expresses his view that next time he will initiate an all-out war against China. 
4-12-1953
 
5-12-1953
promulgation of Law for Requisition of land for national reconstruction
6-12-1953
Hainan Tibetan AP in Qinghai is established
7-12-1953
Meeting CCP on modernization of the PLA
8-12-1953
Elections take place for the NPC.
8-12-1953
UN deals with Burma"s request on withdrawl of GMD troops
8-12-1953
3rd National conference of handicraft cooperatives ends
9-12-1953
29th Session CPGC
10-12-1953
 
11-12-1953
 
12-12-1953
 
13-12-1953
Mao approves the propaganda syllabus on the general line for the transitional period
14-12-1953
 
15-12-1953
Secretariat meeting
16-12-1953
CC adopts Resolution to Develop Agricultural Producers" Co-operatives.
17-12-1953
 
18-12-1953
 
19-12-1953
Menyuan AC of Hui Ethnic Group in Qinghai is established
20-12-1953
 
21-12-1953
Mao stops plan to attack Quemoy 
22-12-1953
Huangnan Tibetan AP in Qinghai is established
23-12-1953
Beria, along with other senior officials of the Interior Ministry, is condemned to death 
24-12-1953
PB meeting on Gao Gang
24-12-1953
CC issues the Directive of Strengthening the Cultural and Educational Work for Cadres
24-12-1953
199th GAC issues "decisions on strenghtening motion picture work"
24-12-1953
3rd national health conference starts
25-12-1953
Mao leaves to Hangzhou
26-12-1953
Ashan iron and  steel works starts
27-12-1953
 
28-12-1953
CC "Platform of Learning and Propagating the "General Line for the Transitional Period"."
28-12-1953
National health conference ends
29-12-1953
Secretariat meeting
30-12-1953
 
31-12-1953
Zhou meets with Indian delegation
31-12-1953
Haibei Tibetan AP in Qinghai is established