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• Other than the unity of all the Chinese, countries like the United States, Russia, and the UK supported

China until Japan surrendered.

• After the Japan-China war, China was nancially drowning and most of its resources were used up.

However, the ght between the Kuomintang and the People's Liberation Army returned until 1949.

• After the Civil War ended, China was proclaimed as a People’s Republic by the Communist Party

Chairman, Mao Zedong, in the Political Consultative Conference.

• The establishment of the People’s Republic of China gave the Chinese people a huge boost, and this day

is celebrated as the country’s national day.

• Under Mao Zedong’s rule, the Chinese were starving and had very limited freedom, which caused the

arrest of Mao’s party after his death, and a new social and economic reform took place.

• Deng Xiaoping took control over the republic and turned its economy into a mixed economy. He

contributed to issuing the Chinese constitution in December 1982.

The Gate of Heavenly Peace, one of the famous landmarks in China

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