Chinese President Xi Jinping chose Oct. 16, the day China successfully conducted its first nuclear test in 1964, to open the Chinese Communist Party's 20th National Congress.
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Oct. 16 occupies a special place in communist China's history. It is a date regarded by many Chinese as glorious and historic, which helps to explain why President Xi Jinping chose it to open the Chinese Communist Party's national congress.
A Chinese intellectual in Xi's age group recalls jumping up and down, shouting with joy in a rural town on Oct. 16, 1964, when he heard the news of China's first successful atomic bomb test.
Any time there is a party history exhibition, the nuclear test 58 years ago at the Lop Nur site in the western part of the country, features prominently.
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