the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) carries out a crackdown on counter-revolutionary movements, aiming to eliminate various personnel that threaten the regime, resulting in about 2,000,000 deaths.
Between 1950 and 1953, China dispatched troops to support North Korea against South Korea and the United Nations Command, becoming one of the major external wars China participated in after 1949.
After the outbreak of the Korean War in 1950, the U.S. Seventh Fleet established the Taiwan Strait Patrol Force. Destroyers and capital ships conducted routine patrols in the Taiwan Strait, deterring conflict and ensuring the strait remained open to international navigation, which laid the foundation for nearly two decades of peace in the Taiwan Strait.
In June 1950, the Agrarian Reform Law of the People's Republic of China was promulgated, and land reform rolled out across rural areas nationwide. Although the original intent was to distribute landlords' land to poor peasants, in actual implementation it evolved into a bloody and violent plundering feast, with numerous landlords stripped of their land and killed. Death tolls estimated by various scholars range between 200,000 and 2 million.
After the Korean War began in June 1950, a long-term policy reality formed among the United States, Taiwan, and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP): the mainland and Taiwan were treated as two separate political entities. Since then, in handling the Taiwan Strait issue, the U.S. has not viewed Taiwan's status as having been finalized by any international document, but has instead continued to make policy arrangements surrounding cross-strait relations, the use of force, and Taiwan's political future.
On June 25, 1950, the Korean People's Army crossed the 38th parallel southward, and the Korean War broke out; in October of the same year, China entered the war.
The CCP launched a nationwide land reform movement, inciting hatred and violence, which resulted in the massacre of approximately 2 million landlords and their families.
After the outbreak of the Korean War in late June 1950, U.S. President Truman declared the Taiwan Strait neutral, blocking either side of the strait from attacking the other.
In March 1950, Gao Gang presented a set of data at the representatives' meeting of the Northeast Bureau, showing that the Northeast accounted for an extremely high proportion of the nation's coal, pig iron, steel, electricity and railways at the time, and was the country's most important industrial base.
The program states that Chen Yi was executed after being held in custody for a period, in order to answer to the local people of Taiwan.
Hu Liren said that Zhao, father of his friend Zhao Jun and the first director of the radiology department at Quyang District Hospital, took gold bars from his home in the early 1950s and entrusted someone to go to Hong Kong to buy an X-ray machine, which was shipped back to Shanghai and donated to the hospital in the name of a gift, becoming the hospital's first X-ray equipment; this was recounted by his students at the memorial meeting after his death.
The author's uncle scored excellently on exams at Shanghai No. 5 Middle School in the 1950s, but because his father was a fugitive landlord he could not attend university and was assigned to an agricultural university in the northwest; that school was located in a famine-stricken area where people starved to death. After he returned to Shanghai, his household registration had already been transferred out so he could not re-register there, and he ultimately returned to his hometown in Zhejiang to farm and live out his days.