On February 17, 1965, beijing capital airport was full of welcoming people, and leaders such as Chairman Liu Shaoqi, Premier Zhou Enlai, Vice Chairman Peng Zhen, and Vice Premier Chen Yi waited on the tarmac early.
After the plane stopped, a guest in a fur hat and coat waved to the welcoming crowd: the then President of Tanzania, Nyerere.
On February 18, 1965, in the Diaoyutai Reception Hall in Beijing, Liu Shaoqi and Zhou Enlai held talks with the visiting Nyerere.
During the talks, Nyerere stated the purpose of his trip: "We want to build a railway with Zambia in Tanzania that will change the fate of our two economies." ”
"You may not think of how important it is to build this railway, it is equivalent to the explosion of an atomic bomb."
Liu Shaoqi nodded and replied, "It can be considered, but it will take a long time." ”
Zhang Baijia is an expert in the history of the Communist Party of China
The Tanzan Railway, this railway will not be too economical in the long run. Mainly out of Sino-African friendship and to support the construction of the African people, China finally decided to use the best quality things that could be produced at that time to assist in the construction of the Tanzan Railway.
On September 5, 1967, representatives of the governments of China, Tanzania and Zambia signed the Agreement on the Construction of the Tanzania-Zambia Railway in Beijing. China has won more and more respect from the world, and the world needs China more and more.
Restoring the legitimate status of the People's Republic of China in the United Nations has become the focus of attention of all countries in the world.
At 12:15 on July 9, 1971, a Boeing 707 aircraft slowly stopped at Beijing Nanyuan Airport. A man in a suit and glasses appeared in front of the crowd.
He is Dr. Kissinger, assistant to the President of the United States for National Security Affairs, and Kissinger's trip to Beijing is only 48 hours.
At 4 p.m., which was the prearranged meeting time, Premier Zhou Enlai arrived on time.
When the meeting officially began, Dr. Kissinger immediately took out a pile of documents, which looked seven or eight inches thick, and he began to read them page by page. From Kissinger's slightly nervous expression, it is not difficult to see that he and the US government attach importance to and be cautious about this secret trip.
After Kissinger arrived in Beijing, Premier Zhou Enlai and Marshal Ye Jianying held six meetings with him, and Premier Zhou Enlai talked with him for the longest time.
One is to focus on how to resolve the Taiwan issue, and of course, specifically, to discuss President Nixon's visit to China.
At noon on July 11, 1971, Dr. Kissinger left Beijing. Four days later, at 7 p.m. local time on July 15, President Nixon suddenly appeared on the television screen and told a heavy message to the American audience.
"It was learned that President Nixon had expressed his wish to visit the People's Republic of China. On behalf of the Government of the People's Republic of China, Premier Zhou Enlai invited President Nixon to visit China, and President Nixon happily accepted the invitation. ”
On the same day that Nixon delivered his televised speech, Algeria, Albania and other 17 member states of the United Nations proposed to add the issue of "restoring the legitimate rights of the People's Republic of China in the Organization of the United Nations" to the agenda of the twenty-sixth session of the United Nations General Assembly.
Subsequently, the United Nations set the voting time for the proposal on October 25, 1971.
On October 20, five days before the vote, The US President's National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger returned to Beijing. At 10 o'clock that evening, Chairman Mao Zedong listened to reports from Zhou Enlai, Ye Jianying, and others in Zhongnanhai. After a brief understanding of Kissinger's situation, Mao Zedong focused on the upcoming United Nations vote.
From 1961 to 1970, the United States designated issues involving China's representation as important issues in the United Nations, requiring two-thirds of the votes to pass. As calls for the restoration of the People's Republic of China's legitimate seat in the United Nations have grown louder, the United States has offered to agree to China's restoration of its legitimate seat in the United Nations, but at the same time retaining the Taiwan authorities' seat in the United Nations.
Both of these proposals put forward by the United States must be voted on at the upcoming twenty-sixth session of the United Nations General Assembly.
On Sunday, October 25, 1971, people were taking leisurely walks through the streets of New York, while the United Nations Headquarters was extremely busy. At 9:47 p.m. New York time, the United Nations General Assembly began voting.
First of all, the "important issues" bill jointly proposed by the United States, Japan and other 22 countries was not adopted. This means that New China's return to the United Nations no longer requires a threshold as high as two-thirds of the votes in favor.
Immediately after that, the General Assembly voted on the proposal to restore all the legitimate rights of the People's Republic of China at the United Nations and to immediately expel the representatives of the Kuomintang clique in Taiwan from the United Nations and all its subordinate organs.
When news of New China's return to the United Nations reached Beijing, the 78-year-old Mao Zedong learned of the news and said, "It was mainly our third-world brothers who brought us in." ”
At 10 p.m. on the 26th, at the Residence in Zhongnanhai, Mao Zedong sat on the sofa with a smile on his face, and he summoned Zhou Enlai, Ye Jianying, Ji Pengfei, qiao Guanhua and others to a meeting.
At this time, the twenty-sixth session of the United Nations General Assembly is still in progress, and will the new China, which has just restored its seat in the United Nations, send a delegation to participate in the meeting?
Source: CCTV National Memory