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.

In January 1956, Beijing became the first city to achieve the establishment of state-private joint enterprises of capitalist industry and commerce by whole trades. On January 15, over 200,000 people gathered in Tiananmen Square to celebrate the event. Le Songsheng, representative of the industrial and commercial circles, is shown here reporting the good news to Chairman Mao Zedong.