1. The first person in modern China to open his eyes to the world: Lin Zexu
2. The first student studying in the United States in modern China: Rong Hong
3. The first person in modern China to create an iron mold casting cannon method: Gong Zhenlin
4. The first patriotic general of the Qing Dynasty who died in the war against foreign aggression in modern times: Chen Liansheng
5. The first person to introduce the three laws of Newtonian mechanics to China: Li Shanlan
6. The first person to introduce Einstein's theory of relativity to China: Xia Yuanyao
7. The first person to propose the establishment of the "Republic of China": Zou Rong
8. The first person to die for the republican revolution: Lu Haodong
9. The first person to shed blood for the Constitution: Song Jiaoren
10. The first inspector of Taiwan: Liu Mingchuan
11. The first elected interim president of the Republic of China: Sun Yat-sen
12. The manufacturers of China's first steam engine: Xu Shou and Hua Xiangfang
13. The first premier of the Republic of China: Tang Shaoyi
14. The first Director general of education of the Republic of China: Cai Yuanpei
15. The first aircraft designer, manufacturer and aviator in modern China: Feng Ru
16. The first person in modern China to establish vocational education: Huang Yanpei
17. The first person in modern times to make a scientific evaluation of China's climatic conditions and resources: Zhu Kezhen
18. The first person in modern China to propose to break down feudal historiography and carry out a "historiographical revolution": Liang Qichao
19. China's first Marxist, the first person in China to raise the banner of socialism: Li Dazhao
20. The first person to write a general history of China from a bourgeois point of view: Xia Zengyou
21. The first person in China to expound educational theory from a Marxist point of view: Yang Xianjiang
22. The founder of China's first workers' night school: Mao Zedong
23. The first secretary of the Central Bureau of the Communist Party of China: Chen Duxiu
24. The first person to call the army led by the Communist Party of China the "Red Army": Wu Lanyi
25. The first person who led the troops to fire the anti-Japanese armed struggle in northeast China: Ma Zhanshan
26 The first country to open the door to China, and the first to force the Qing government to sign an unequal treaty: Britain
27. The first country to obtain the privilege of building railways in China, and the first to obtain priority in mining in China: France
28. The first country to set off a frenzy to divide China: Germany
29. The first country to obtain the privilege of opening a factory at a Chinese treaty port: Japan
30. The first country in the "New Treaty Revision Campaign" to conclude a treaty on customs relations with China: the United States
31. The First Contest between the Qing Government and the Western Capitalist Countries (the First Large-Scale War of Aggression against China Launched by the Great Powers): The Opium War
32. The first major powers captured Beijing: In October 1860, the British and French forces captured Beijing
33. The first large-scale armed uprising that broke out under the influence of the Alliance: the Pingliu Li Uprising
34. The First Dharma Protector Movement: Launched in 1917 and soon failed
35. The First Zhifeng War: The outbreak of the Immediate Warlords in 1922 was won
36. The First Crusade of the Guangdong Revolutionary Government: In February 1925, Chen Jiongming's main force was crushed
37. The first climax of the workers' movement: from January 1922 to February 1923, the Strike of Hong Kong Seamen was the starting point and the strike of the Beijing-Hankou Railway Workers was the culmination
38. The period of the First Civil Revolutionary War: From January 1924 to July 1927, also known as the period of the National Revolutionary Movement
39. The first armed uprising of the Shanghai workers: launched on October 23, 1926, failed due to insufficient preparation
40. The CCP fired the first shot of armed resistance to the kuomintang's reactionary rule: the Nanchang Uprising
41. The Red Army's First Anti-"Encirclement and Suppression" campaign in the Central Revolutionary Base Areas: November 1930 to January 1931
42. The first change in the strategic policy of the Red Army during the Long March: the transfer of troops to Guizhou
43. China's first great victory since the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression: the Great Victory of Ping-type Guan
44. The first congress organized by the Nationalist Government on the frontal battlefield: the Battle of Songhu
45. The first anti-communist upsurge of the Kuomintang diehards: from December 1939 to March 1940, they were crushed by the military and civilians in the Liberated Areas
46 For the first time, China won a complete victory in the struggle against imperialism: the victory in the War of Resistance Against Japan
47. The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China commanded the People's Liberation Army to launch the first major campaign of a strategic decisive battle against the Kuomintang army: the Liaoshen Campaign
48. The first barbaric massacre of the peaceful inhabitants of China by the great powers: the Massacre of the Japanese army in Lushun in 1894
49. The first local puppet regime in modern China: the Bogui government in Guangzhou
50. The first concession in modern China: the British Concession in Shanghai