AN Illustrated History of the Communist Party of China-china.org.cn

A translation of Manifesto of the Communist Party was published in Shanghai.

Eighth Route Army soldiers celebrating victory on the Great Wall.

Mao Zedong went to Chongqing to talk with the Kuomintang government.

Private handicraftsmen turned to the socialist path by way of cooperatives.

Workers of the Daqing Oilfield at work.

A village-level organization signing a contract with peasants.

One democratic government after another was established at various levels within base areas and people became their own masters. In November 1931, the First National Congress of the Chinese Soviet was convened in Ruijin, Jiangxi Province. Shown here is the First Executive Committee of the Central Workers’ and Peasants’ Democratic Government elected during the congress at its first meeting.