December 13 - Today in the history of the Party: The Japanese army occupies Nanjing, the capital of the Nationalist government

On December 13, 1937, the resolution of the Politburo meeting of the Central Committee spoke highly of the three years of guerrilla warfare between the Red Army and the guerrillas in the south

On December 13, 1937, the resolution of the Politburo meeting of the Central Committee spoke highly of the three-year guerrilla war between the Red Army and the guerrillas in the south, pointing out: After the main Red Army left the south, the comrades of the guerrilla zones persisted in heroic guerrilla warfare for a long time under extremely difficult conditions, basically correctly carried out the party line, and fulfilled the tasks entrusted to them by the party, so that they could preserve the guerrilla areas as the main fulcrum of the anti-Japanese war of Chinese people, and make the guerrilla units one of the best anti-Japanese troops. This is an extremely valuable victory for the Chinese people.

December 13, 1937 Japanese army occupies Nanjing, the capital of the Nationalist government

December 13, 1937 Japanese army occupies Nanjing, the capital of the Nationalist government. Under the instigation and command of The Commander of the Japanese Central China Front, General Matsui Ishigen, the Commander of the Shanghai Dispatch Army, Lieutenant General Hatohiko Asakamiya, and the Commander of the Sixth Division, Lieutenant General Tani Shoufu, the commander of the Sixth Division, the Japanese army burned and plundered in the Nanjing area for six weeks. More than 300,000 Chinese civilians and captured soldiers were collectively shot, burned, buried alive, and otherwise executed. At the same time, one-third of the houses in the city of Nanjing were burned down and almost all shops were looted. In the month after the Japanese army entered Nanjing, there were about 20,000 rapes and gang rapes, and even young girls under 10 years old and old women in their 60s and 70s were not spared. Many women were raped and then slaughtered and destroyed. This is a heinous crime committed by the Japanese imperialists against the Chinese people.

On December 13, 1978, Deng Xiaoping delivered a speech entitled "Emancipating the Mind, Seeking Truth from Facts, Uniting as One and Looking Forward" at the closing session of the Central Work Conference

On December 13, 1978, Deng Xiaoping delivered a speech entitled "Emancipating the Mind, Seeking Truth from Facts, Uniting as One and Looking Forward" at the closing session of the Central Work Conference. He pointed out: The first is to emancipate the mind, and only when we emancipate our minds can we correctly take Marxism-Leninism and Mao Zedong Thought as our guide to resolve the problems left over from the past and solve a series of newly emerging problems. If a party, a country, and a nation proceed from the very beginning of everything, if their thinking is rigid, and superstition prevails, then they will not be able to advance, their vitality will cease, and they will perish the party and the country. He also put forward the task of reforming the economic system, and warned the whole party in a serious tone: "If we do not carry out reform again, our cause of modernization and socialism will be buried." This speech actually became the theme report of the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee held later, and it was a manifesto for Breaking through the "Two Whatevers" and opening up a new road in the new period and pioneering the theory of building socialism with Chinese characteristics at a major historical juncture when China was facing the major historical juncture of where to go after the end of the "Cultural Revolution."