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China’s new ambassador to the United Kingdom, His Excellency Zheng Zeguang, hosted an online meeting from the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China on Tuesday, June 22, to mark the Centenary of the CPC. Opening a symposium on the Centenary and China’s Future Development, he reviewed the modern history of the country and its struggle against imperialist occupation and domination which culminated in the founding of the People’s Republic in 1949. The Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 in Russia had made possible the arrival of Marxism-Leninism in China and the formation of the CPC in 1921. The ambassador then described how the ruling Communist Party’s change of strategy from the late 1970s enabled great advances to be made in industry, technology and science leading to China becoming the world’s biggest industrial country. He summarised the achievements of the latest Five Year Plan and the abolition of extreme poverty in the…
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Celebrating 100 Years of the Communist Party of China (CPC)