China's Milestones:
-April 24, 1970, China successfully launches the first artificial Earth satellite.
-On June 27, 1970, the Central Committee of China*** approved the "Report of Peking University and Tsinghua University on the Request for Enrollment (Pilot)". Higher education institutions began to enroll and resume classes.
-September 13, 1971, Lin Biao and other hasty flight out of the country, passing through the Mongolian Vindulkhan plane destroyed.
-On April 5, 1976, there was a mass movement in Beijing's Tiananmen Square to commemorate Premier Zhou Enlai and oppose the Gang of Four.
-On July 28, 1976, at 3:42:56 GMT, a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck Tangshan City, Hebei Province.
-On September 9, 1976, Mao Zedong died, and on October 6, the Gang of Four was isolated and censored, ending the Cultural Revolution.
-May 10, 1978, "Practice is the Only Standard for Testing Truth" was published, and the whole country started the ideological emancipation discussion.
-On January 1, 1979, China and the United States established diplomatic relations.
Changes in the thinking of young people in the 1970s:
Objects of worship: Zhang Tiesheng, the hero of the white scrolls in the early 1970s, and Chen Jingrun, a scientist, at the end of the 1970s
Ideals in life: stopping classes to make a revolution in the early 1970s, and going to college at the end of the 1970s
Forms of dance: "Zhongzi" (loyal character) at the beginning of the 1970s, "Zhongzi" (faithful character) at the end of the 1970s. Dance forms: "Zhong Zi Dance" at the beginning of the 70's, and social dance at the end of the 70's
70's buzzwords:
1970: Workers, peasants and soldiers students, farmers to non-permanent model theater
1971: hasty escape, super genius, permanent license plate
1972: industrial learning Daqing, rolling the road, extreme leftist ideology.
1973: Criticism of Forests and Confucius, Human Defense Project
1974: Legalism, Back Door, Kung Lao Er
1975: Cutting the Tail of Capitalism and Taking Class Struggle as the Outline
1976: White Bones, Earthquake Shelter, Gang of Four
1977: Gangs of Figures, Higher Education Examination, Grasping the Guidelines for Ruling the Nation
1978: Scars. Literature: Wherever Pie: Implementing Policies
1979: The Delayed Generation: One Child: A Sense of Urgency
World Events:
- In October 1970, the Italian terrorist organization, the "Red Brigades," was founded, and its emergence was linked to the extreme leftist ideology that was prevalent in the youth of Western Europe.
- In April-May 1971, 320,000 Americans demonstrated in Washington against the Vietnam War.
- On June 17, 1972, the Watergate scandal was revealed. This political scandal forced Nixon to resign as President of the United States on the evening of August 8th.
- On August 8, 1973, Kim Dae-jung, a South Korean democrat who attacked the dictatorship of the Park Chung-hee clique in Japan, was kidnapped by CIA agents in South Korea and taken back to Seoul for trial. World opinion reacted strongly.
- In August 1974, the United Nations convened the first World Population Conference to consider population issues from a political and developmental perspective.
- On July 20, 1976, the U.S. unmanned spacecraft Viking 1 made a successful soft landing on Mars after a 500 million mile flight over nearly 11 months, and news of the successful landing was transmitted back to Earth 19 minutes later.
1980-1989: A New Era of Reform and Opening Up
China's Milestones:
-January 4, 1981, the river cut-off project of the Yangtze River Gezhouba Water Conservancy Hub Project was successfully closed.
-On June 1, 1981, China Daily was founded in Beijing. It was the first national English-language newspaper in New China.
-On October 8, 1983, the first computer series production line introduced by China was completed in Guangzhou, with an annual output of 400 minicomputers.
-On December 27, 1984, China's Antarctic expedition boarded Antarctica.
-In late September 1986, the first stock exchange in mainland China since 1949 was opened in Shanghai on an experimental basis.
-In November 1987, the Taiwan authorities opened up family visits to the mainland.
-In 1988, China experienced inflation and a rush to buy.
Earliest Hong Kong and Taiwanese singer to enter the mainland: Teresa Teng (early 1980s)
Entertainment preferred by youth: watching movies, dancing, reading novels
First martial arts film to cause a sensation: Shaolin Temple
Most watched sports: women's volleyball team, ping pong
Most widely listened to radio program: English lectures
> The most influential medium: television
80's buzzwords:
1980: Self-education Crisis of Faith The Three Greats
1981: Pop songs The Way to Make a Living The Five Lectures on the Four Beauties
1982: Hong Kong businessmen The Modernists Make a lot of money
1983: Disco The Third Wave The TOEFL Exam
1984: Big Men, Big Women, Pure Literature, Martial Arts
1985: Eat, Drink, Take, Hang Upside Down, Mini Skirt
1986: Documentary Literature, Strong Women, Understanding the Years
1987: High Spending, Fixing the Great Wall, The Four Little Dragons
1988: Second Career, Officials, Pouring, Breakdancing, World Milestones:
- 1981, Los Angeles, USA. The first case of AIDS was diagnosed at the University of California Hospital Medical Center.
-In 1982, Africa was hit by a drought like no other in its history, affecting 36 countries, 150 million people, and 1 million people died of famine.
- On December 1, 1982, Dr. Jarvik of Cleveland Hospital performed the first heart transplant on Clark, who survived for 111 days, 17 hours, and 53 minutes.
- On March 28, 1983, President Reagan made a televised speech claiming that the United States would no longer have to live under the threat of "nuclear annihilation" and that he would develop a space-placed anti-ballistic missile system, known as the "Star Wars Program".
- On May 17, 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev unveiled a draconian ban on alcohol, launching an "anti-alcohol campaign" against 40 million alcoholics.
-July 11, 1987 - World Population Day - 5 billion people. The United Nations recognized Matej Gajpal, born at 8:35 a.m. in Zagreb, Yugoslavia, as the 5 billionth person born that day.
1990-1997: Toward a New Century