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China Became Communist
On October 1, 1949, Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong declared the creation of the People's Republic of China. -
Great Leap Forward http @#$://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-pacific-13017882
Mao launches the "Great Leap Forward", a five-year economic plan. Collectivised farming and the labour-intensive industry is introduced. The drive produces economic breakdown and is abandoned after two years. The famine is blamed for the deaths by starvation of millions of people following poor harvests. -
Cultural Revolution
"Cultural Revolution", Mao's 10-year political and ideological campaign aimed at reviving revolutionary spirit, produces massive social, economic and political upheaval, and trained Red Guards. The Red Guards were people in their teens and 20s who supported the Communist Party in the Cultural Revolution. Clutching the Little Red Book of quotations from Chairman Mao, they terrorised "closet capitalists". -
Mao Dies
"Gang of Four", including Mao's widow, jockey for power but are arrested and convicted of crimes against the state. From 1977 Deng Xiaoping emerges as the dominant figure among pragmatists in the leadership. Under him, China undertakes far-reaching economic reforms -
Deng Xiaoping
Deng Xiaoping was the leader of China from 1978 until he retired in 1992. He put the four moderns in place which are to strengthen the fields of agriculture, the industry, national defense, and science and the trchnology in China. He was also a Chinese revolutionary and stateman. -
Jiang Zemin Takes Over
Jiang Zemin takes over as Chinese Communist Party general secretary from Zhao Ziyang, who refused to support martial law during the Tiananmen demonstrations. -
Tiananmen Square Massacre
Troops open fire on demonstrators who have camped for weeks in Tiananmen Square initially to demand the posthumous rehabilitation of former CCP General Secretary Hu Yaobang, who was forced to resign in 1987. The official death toll is 200. International outrage leads to sanctions.
