CIIC:Selected anniversaries/December 18

Deng Xiaoping at the Third Plenary Session of the 11th CPC Central Committee, 1978.

1882: Cai E, a celebrated general in modern Chinese revolutionary history, was born.

1978: The Third Plenary Session of the 11th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China began.

1987: China completed its first all-Chinese robot, Yegang No. 1 Robot.