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This is a page to list China-related articles and pictures that may be considered for use on the front page of Portal:China.Previously used articles and pictures can be found at Portal:China/Selected article/2024 and Portal:China/Selected picture/2024 and in the archives of previous years.
Leshan has a long history, with written records tracing back to around 700 BC during the Kai Ming dynasty of the Shu Kingdom.Around the early Spring and Autumn period, the Ba people, led by Kai Ming Bie Ling, migrated from western Hubei and settled at the confluence of the three rivers in what is now Leshan, including present-day Fengzhouba and the Dadu River.
18 September – A ten-year old student of a Japanese school dies in a knife attack in Shenzhen. The suspect is arrested. [81] 25 September – China carries out its first test of an intercontinental ballistic missile since 1980, launching a dummy warhead into the Pacific Ocean [82] that lands near the Marquesas Islands. [83]
The Sino-Indian War between China and India occurred in October–November 1962. A disputed Himalayan border was the main cause of the war. There had been a series of violent border skirmishes between the two countries after the 1959 Tibetan uprising, when India granted asylum to the Dalai Lama.
The Joint Sword-2024 (Chinese: 联合利剑2024), was a military exercise organized by the Eastern Theater Command of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) to organize the land, sea, air, and rocket forces of the theatre of operations in the vicinity of Kinmen, Matsu Islands, and the Island of Taiwan. [1] [2] [3]
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2024 was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2024th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 24th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 5th year of the 2020s decade.