KEY DATES

When was the Great Leap Forward?

1958–1962

When were the Commutes?

1958

When were the higher APCS?

1956

When were the Lower Agricultural Producer Cooperatives?

1953

When were the Mutual Aid Teams?

1950

When was the first Five-Year-Plan?

1953–1957

When was the People’s Bank opened?

1951

When was the Thought Reform Campaign?

September 1951

When was the Five-Anti Campaign?

January 1952

When was the Three-Anti Campaign?

August 1951

When was the Agrarian Reform Law promulgated?

June 30th 1950

When was the National People’s Congress created?

September 15th 1954

When did Chiang resign?

January 21st 1949

When did Mao stand outside the Forbidden City to declare the formation of the People’s Republic of China?

October 1st 1949

When did the battle of Huai-hai start?

November 6th 1948

When was all of Manchuria firmly under CCP control?

November 2nd 1948

When did Chiang capture Yanan?

March 19th 1947

When did the fighting resume in Manchuria after the period of truce?

October 11th 1946

When did the Japanese capture Shanghai?

November 26th 1937

When was the Marco Polo Bridge incident?

July 7th 1937

When was the Zunyi Conference?

January 15th to 17th 1935

When was the CCP founded?

July 1st 1921

How long did the Long March last?

From October 16 1934 to October 22nd 1935

What was the time frame for the battle of the Xiang River?

November 25th to December 3rd 1934

When did the Long March begin?

October 16th 1934

When did the KMT begin their fifth and final campaign against the CCP?

September 25th 1933

When did Chiang begin his campaign?

July 9th 1926

When did Yuan Shikai die?

June 6th 1916

When did Yuan Shikai declare himself Emperor?

December 12th 1915

When was the constitutional republic of China established?

January 1st 1912

How many children were families encouraged to have during the famine 1959-61?

2

Ideal marriage age for men

25-27

Ideal marriage age for women

23

Population increase between 1953-1964

112 million

Year women gained the right to vote in China

1953

Percentage of CCP membership that was female under Mao

13%

Percentage of National People's Congress members who were women in 1954

14%

Percentage of National People's Congress members who were women in 1975

23%

Year the Women's Federation was shut down during the Cultural Revolution

1968

Year the Women's Federation resumed work after the arrest of the Gang of Four

1976

Year the Qing Dynasty collapsed

1911

Years of the First United Front

1922-1927

Year Chiang Kai-shek launched the Northern Expedition

1926

Year Chiang Kai-shek turned against the CCP and launched the White Terror

1927

Years of the first phase of the Chinese Civil War

1927-1936

Years of the Encirclement Campaigns against the CCP

1930-1934

Years of the Long March

1934-1935

Year Japan occupied Manchuria

1931

Years of the Second Sino-Japanese War

1937-1945

Number of Nationalist officers lost fighting Japan

Approximately 100,000

Year Chiang Kai-shek failed to reach a compromise with the CCP

1945

Year the second phase of the Chinese Civil War began

1946

Percentage of China's population made up by peasants

88%

Number of soldiers in the GMD army at the start of the Civil War

5 million

Number of soldiers in the CCP army at the start of the Civil War

1 million

Number of peasant militia supporting the CCP

2 million

Year of Mao's Rectification Campaigns

1942

Year Mao Thought was officially recognised in the CCP Constitution

1945

Number of Red Army soldiers executed after the Futian Incident

2,000

Years of the Manchuria Campaign

1948

Approximate number of Nationalist troops lost in the Manchuria Campaign

500,000

Year of the Huai-Hai Campaign

1948

Year the CCP took Beijing

1949