歷史今天:1901年陳毅出生(8.26)
【英文原文】
He was born in Lezhi, near Chengdu, Sichuan, into a moderately wealthy magistrate's family.
A comrade of Lin Biao from their guerilla days, Chen was a commander of the New Fourth Army during the Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945), spearheaded the Shandong counter-offensive during the Chinese Civil War, and later commanded the Communist armies that defeated the KMT forces at Huai-Hai and conquered the lower Yangtze region in 1948-49. He was made a Marshal of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) in 1955.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Chen became mayor of Shanghai. He also served as vice premier from 1954 to 1972 and Foreign minister from 1958 to 1972 and president of the China Foreign Affairs University from 1961 to 1969. During the Cultural Revolution, he was purged in 1967, but not officially dismissed, so Zhou Enlai performed the duties of foreign minister in his place.
【中文譯文】
陳毅出生在四川樂至縣一箇中等富裕的家庭。
在游擊戰的時候陳毅和林彪是戰友，並在抗日戰爭時期擔任新四軍的司令（1937-1945年），內戰時期，他曾率領先鋒部隊反攻山東，後來又率領共軍在淮海戰役中大敗國軍，在1948至1949年解放了長江下游地區。在1955年被授予解放軍元帥軍銜。
中華人民共和國建國以來，陳毅擔任上海市長。1954年至1972年他擔任過國務院副總理，1958年至1972年擔任過外長，1961年至1969年擔任中國外交學院院長。文化大革命期間，他在1967年被除名，但沒有被正式解僱，所以周恩來暫時接替他擔任外交部長的職務。
