Major Events in the 40 Years of Reform and Opening Up

On January 1, CCTV's "News Network" officially launched. Xinhua News Agency reported on January 3 that the preparatory meeting for the National Overseas Chinese Affairs Conference was recently held in Beijing. The meeting exposed and criticized Lin Biao and the "Gang of Four" for their serious interference and destruction of overseas Chinese affairs, and discussed how to strengthen overseas Chinese affairs in the future. On the 4th, "People's Daily" published an editorial "We must pay attention to overseas Chinese affairs." At the same time, Liao Chengzhi's article "Criticizing the Reactionary Fallacy of the "Gang of Four" on the So-called "Overseas Relations" Issue" was published. On the 11th, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China approved the "Report on the National Overseas Chinese Affairs Conference".