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.

A worker (right, front) who returned to the countryside in Xinhui County, Guangdong Province, doing farm work. To readjust the national economy, it was necessary to curtail the industrial development, cut down the scale of capital construction and reduce the number of staff members and workers, and urban population. Between 1961 and 1963, over twenty million urban citizens answered the call of the Party and moved to the countryside.