March 4, 1985: Deng Xiaoping declares the importance of the North-South issue
On March 4, 1985, Deng Xiaoping met with the delegation of the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and pointed out that issues of peace and development are the main issues in the modern world. The peace issue is the East-West issue, while the development issue is the North-South issue, he said, adding that the North-South issue is the core issue.
March 4, 1989: Deng Xiaoping points out to the Central Committee that the key to the country's four modernizations and reform and opening-up is stability
March 4, 2005: Hu Jintao proposes a new approach to cross-Straits relations
Hu outlined four points. He said the one-China principle will never waver, that efforts to achieve peaceful reunification will never be abandoned, that hope for the Taiwan people will never change, and that opposing "Taiwan independence" secessionist activities will never be compromised.
March 4, 2006: Hu Jintao establishes the Socialist concept of honor and disgrace
On March 4, 2006, Hu Jintao stressed the need to guide the cadres and the masses, especially young people, to establish the Socialist concept of honor and disgrace. The concept underscores the value of patriotism, consciousness of serving the people, and belief in science, hard work, solidarity, honesty, observation of the law and plain living. He condemned the opposite of these virtues as disgraces.
Zhu De, born in Yilong County of Sichuan Province in 1886 and passed away in 1976, is a great Marxist, proletarian revolutionary, statesman and military strategist.
A native of Le Zhi, in Southwest China's Sichuan Province, and awarded by the People's Republic of China the military rank of marshal; Served as the country's Vice Premier (1954-1972) and Foreign Minister (1958-1972)