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.

From the end of November 1948 to the end of January 1949, the Northeast Field Army and the troops of the North China Military Area fought the Peiping-Tianjin Campaign, during which 520,000 Kuomintang troops were either wiped out or reorganized into PLA units. People in North China are shown here welcoming the Northeast Field Army to move into areas inside the Shanhaiguan.