Important
October 20, 1925
The Kuomintang of China's "Guangdong Provincial Party Congress Daily" published Mao Zedong's "Speech of Publication." The publication pointed out: We have obtained the correct revolutionary tactics from the National Congress last January, that is, Dr. Sun Yat-sen should respond to the objective environment in which China is oppressed by external forces, warlords, compradors, and landlord classes, and set up a revolutionary Three People's Principles for us. Revolutionary nationalism calls us to resist imperialism and liberate the Chinese nation; revolutionary civil rights doctrine calls us to resist the warlords and enable the Chinese people to stand on their own dominant position; revolutionary people's livelihood doctrine calls us to rebel against the big merchant comprador class, especially the landlord class, which is the fundamental source of all reactionary forces of feudal patriarchy, so that the majority of the poor people in China can enjoy economic happiness. This publication was included in the first volume of the Collected Works of Mao Zedong.
October 20, 1941
The Politburo of the CPC Central Committee held a meeting to discuss the current situation. In view of hideki Tojo's appointment as Prime Minister of Japan on the eighteenth day of this month, Mao Zedong pointed out: Recently, the situation has reached a turning point. Japan's new cabinet should be estimated as a military cabinet directly preparing for war; Japan is in danger of advancing northward, but it has not yet compromised with Britain and the United States and does not dare to advance northward; it is more likely that it will go south, but Japan will not immediately go south if it wants to prepare for war, and at present it will not have a major military operation against our country, but there will still be a big offensive situation in the future. The Kuomintang said not to be pessimistic, but in fact there was pessimism, and Chiang Kai-shek also proposed the Three Norths policy (that is, the Japanese army marched north, the Kuomintang army moved north, and the Eighth Route Army's New Fourth Army moved north). Now there is also pessimism among our Party members, and this pessimism and disappointment is unfounded. Our line must continue the old line, uphold unity, and if we want to unite, we must carry out struggle, and we must ensure that the Kuomintang can neither surrender nor "suppress the Communists." It is necessary to ensure the independence of the Party. Moscow is in danger now, but the German offensive may have reached its highest point.
October 20, 1945
Mao Zedong drafted a telegram for the CPC Central Committee to the heads of the Central Bureaus, District Party Committees, and Corps. The telegram pointed out that the period of about six months that has begun at present is a transitional period for the transition from the anti-Japanese stage to the stage of peaceful construction. The struggle for the next six months will be key to determining our political position throughout the coming peace phase. During this period, the tasks of our Party in the areas ruled by the Kuomintang (e.g., Chongqing, Shanghai, and Beiping) were to expand the united front work of national democracy, to cooperate with the broad masses of friendly and possible Chinese and foreign personalities, to organize the broad masses, to launch campaigns demanding democracy, punishing traitors, saving economic panic, to provide relief to the unemployed and to assist the returnees, and to continue negotiations with the government authorities on the outstanding issues to be resolved. The central task of our Party in the Liberated Areas is to concentrate all forces against the attack of the recalcitrant forces and to expand the Liberated Areas as much as possible. For this purpose, in addition to moving a large number of troops and cadres to the northeast and Rehe and other places, and organizing the people there, expanding the army, and preventing and crushing the incursions of the recalcitrant army, in all liberated areas, it is the organization of a powerful field army to systematically annihilate the recalcitrant army attacking us, and the more it is annihilated, the cleaner and more thoroughly it is. This is a war of self-defense, and we have every reason to stand in a reasonable and advantageous position. All work in the Liberated Areas should serve this central task. As long as our Party has a clear policy and resolute efforts to defeat and annihilate in large numbers the recalcitrant forces attacking North china and Northeast China, to win the favorable position of our Party and our army in North China and Northeast China, to force the stubborn side to admit this position, and then the two parties will compromise and move to a new period of peaceful development, this is absolutely necessary and completely possible. Peace, democracy, unity, and reunification are the established policies of our Party and the road that the Kuomintang was forced to take, which was already stipulated in the Double Tenth Chongqing Agreement. However, the Kuomintang has tried to control more places in recent months, to seek their superiority in north and northeast China, and to weaken our Party and our army in order to achieve peaceful compromise under conditions favorable to them. In this inevitable and present situation that has already arrived, our Party must have a clear understanding, must adhere to the principle of unity and struggle, and use the means of struggle to achieve the goal of unity, and unswervingly strive for the victory of the present struggle in order to turn favourably to a new stage of peaceful development. The greater the victory of the present struggle, the faster the time for peace will be achieved, and the more favorable it will be for the entire Chinese people. The Liberated Areas should therefore organize our forces with the strength that has been organized over the years and continue to organize our forces expeditiously, and use them all in the struggle of the next six months for the great victory of this struggle. Because this is a decisive battle in China's new historical stage.
Party history looks back
In 1923
On October 20, China Youth (Weekly), a central organ of the Chinese Socialist Youth League, was launched in Shanghai, and Yun Daiying, Xiao Chunu, Lin Yunan, Ren Bishi, Deng Zhongxia, Zhang Tailei, Li Qiushi, etc. served as the editors of the journal. It was discontinued in November 1927.
In 1962
On October 20, the Chinese border guards were ordered to conduct a self-defense counterattack against the armed offensive of the Indian army. Since December 1, the Chinese border defense forces have unilaterally retreated 20 kilometers from the Line of Actual Control of the two sides on November 7, 1959, and set up a civil affairs checkpoint on the Chinese side of the Line of Actual Control.
In 1984
On October 20, the Third Plenary Session of the 12th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China was held. The plenary session adopted the "Decision on The Reform of the Economic Structure," which stipulates the tasks, nature, principles, and policies of the economic structural reform focusing on cities; and proposes that the socialist economy is a planned commodity economy on the basis of public ownership.
In 2014
From October 20 to 23, the Fourth Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China was held. The plenary session adopted the "Decision on Several Major Issues Concerning the Comprehensive Advancement of Governing the Country According to Law", pointing out that the overall goal of comprehensively promoting the rule of law is to build a socialist rule of law system with Chinese characteristics and a socialist country ruled by law.
In 2018
On October 20, China's self-developed large-scale fire extinguishing/water rescue amphibious aircraft AG600 successfully carried out its first water test mission at Zhanghe Airport in Jingmen, Hubei Province.
Source: Website of the Institute of Party History and Literature of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China
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