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.

Under extremely difficult situations, the Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army continued to carry out scattered guerrilla warfare. Yang Jingyu, commander-in-chief of the First Route Army, died in February 1940 during a battle against one of the enemy’s “mopping-up” operations in Mengjiang County (today’s Jingyu County, Jilin Province).