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.

The two-layer management system-dispersed household contracting and unified collective management-broke up the former system of people’s communes. On October 12, 1983, the CPC Central Committee and the State Council issued a “Circular on Separating the Functions of Government from Commune Management and Establishing Township People’s Government”. Xiangyang Township People’s Government in Guanghan County, Sichuan Province, shown here, was the first such government in the country.