¡¡¡¡CAIRO, July 31 (Xinhuanet) -- The Chinese Embassy in Cairo held a reception here on Wednesday to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese People's Liberation Army.

¡¡¡¡Egyptian Deputy Prime Minister Youssef Amin Wali was among those attending the reception.

¡¡¡¡On August 1, 1927, an uprising at Nanchang in east China's Jiangxi Province marked the beginning of the independent leadership of the army by the Communist Party of China.

¡¡¡¡After the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, the government set August 1 as Army Day. Enditem

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