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 the 1950s, the friendly relations between the Chinese and Soviet Parties and governments gradually deteriorated. In July 1960, the Soviet Government unilaterally decided to withdraw all Soviet experts working in China and to terminate the agreement on economic and technological cooperation between the two countries. Chinese comrades are shown here bidding farewell at the Tianjin Railway Station to Soviet experts leaving for home in August 1960.