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.

At the end of June 1946, the Kuomintang authorities broke the truce agreement and other agreements passed by the political consultative conference. A large number of troops were then sent to encircle Liberated Areas in the Central Plains, starting an all-out civil war. The 359th Brigade of the Central Plains Military Area is shown here arriving in Yan’an after breaking out of the encirclement.