Internal Section

January 14-18

Beijing, Ninth Plenary Session of Eighth CPC Central Committee. Adopts national economic policy of readjustment, consolidation, filling out and improvement, and relevant measures to overcome economic difficulties of three hard years 1959-61.

Later practical rules and concrete policies regarding rural people's communes, commerce and handicrafts, scientific research, state-owned industry, and higher education, are drawn up.

July i6

CPC Central Committee passes Decision Concerning Some Questions on Strengthening Construction of Atomic Energy industry, stressing need to establish atomic energy industry through self-reliance.

July 19

CPC Central Committee issues written instruction on policies for scientific research, stressing need to use all forces and to win over all intellectuals who can be won over, to serve socialist cause.

¡¡ Foreign Relations

January 2-9

Premier Zhou Enlai visits Burma.

February 20

Diplomatic relations established with Zaire. (Diplomatic relations were temporarily suspended on September 18, 1961 and normalized again on November 24, 1972.)

April 1

Jakarta. Friendship Treaty between China and Indonesia signed. (This treaty expired on June 14, 1971.)

April 25

Diplomatic relations established with Laos.

July 11

Beijing. Sino-Korean Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance signed.

August 18

Beijing. Friendship Treaty between China and Ghana signed.

October 5

Beijing. Sino-Nepalese Boundary Treaty signed.

October 15-23

Vice-Chairman of Central Committee of CPC Zhou Enlai leads Party delegation to attend the 22nd Congress of Soviet Communist Party (opening on October 17 and closing on October 31) and returns in advance on October 23. He is welcomed by Mao Zedong, Liu Shaoqi, Zhu De and Deng Xiaoping on his arrival at Beijing Airport.