1955 in China
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Events in the year 1955 in China. The country had an estimated population of 605 million people.[1]
Incumbents
[edit]- Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party: Mao Zedong
- President of the People's Republic of China: Mao Zedong
- Premier of the People's Republic of China: Zhou Enlai
- Chairman of the National People's Congress: Liu Shaoqi
- Vice President of the People's Republic of China: Zhu De
- Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China: Chen Yun
Governors
[edit]- Governor of Anhui Province: Zeng Xisheng then Huang Yan
- Governor of Fujian Province: Ye Fei
- Governor of Gansu Province: Deng Baoshan
- Governor of Guangdong Province: Tao Zhu
- Governor of Guizhou Province: Zhou Lin
- Governor of Hebei Province: Lin Tie
- Governor of Heilongjiang Province: Han Guang
- Governor of Henan Province: Wu Zhipu
- Governor of Hubei Province: Liu Zihou then Zhang Tixue
- Governor of Hunan Province: Cheng Qian
- Governor of Jiangsu Province: Tan Zhenlin then Hui Yuyu
- Governor of Jiangxi Province: Shao Shiping
- Governor of Jilin Province: Li Youwen
- Governor of Liaoning Province: Du Zheheng
- Governor of Qinghai Province: Sun Zuobin
- Governor of Shaanxi Province: Zhao Shoushan
- Governor of Shandong Province: Kang Sheng then Zhao Jianmin
- Governor of Shanxi Province: Pei Lisheng
- Governor of Sichuan Province: Li Jingquan then Li Dazhang
- Governor of Yunnan Province: Chen Geng then Guo Yingqiu
- Governor of Zhejiang Province: Tan Zhenlin then Sha Wenhan
Events
[edit]- Continuing Kuomintang Islamic insurgency in China
- January 18 to January 20 - Battle of Yijiangshan Islands
- January 19 to February 26 - Battle of Dachen Archipelago
- January 29 - Formosa Resolution of 1955
- April 11 - Kashmir Princess
- until May 1 - First Taiwan Strait Crisis
- August - Start of the Sufan movement
- September–November Bumper rice and wheat crop
Other events
[edit]- July - Opening of Taizhou Luqiao Airport
- Opening of the Chongqing Zoo
- Completion of the Sino-Soviet Friendship Building, in Shanghai
Other establishments
[edit]Education
[edit]- Establishments:
Sports
[edit]- Establishment of Jilin FC
Births
[edit]- January
- Wang Jiasheng, former Political Commissar of the People's Liberation Army Rocket Force
- January 1 — Yang Yumin, footballer
- February 4 — He Lifeng, economist and politician
- March 5 — Wang Yang, 9th Chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
- April 27 — Jing Yidan, former host
- July 3 — Li Keqiang, 7th Premier of China (d. 2023)
- July 12 — Chen Quanguo, Member of the 19th Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party
- September 8 — Fan Zhiqi, actor (d. 2010)
- September 23 — Ma Shaohua, Hui actor
- October 6 — Wang Huning, 10th Chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
- November
- Li Qiang, politician from Jiangsu province
- November 22 — Ding Lieyun, management scientist and educator
- December 5 — Cai Qi, First-ranked Secretary of the 20th Secretariat of the Chinese Communist Party
- Unknown dates
Deaths
[edit]- February 9 — Zhang Lan, 1st Chairman of the China Democratic League (b. 1872)
- February 23 — Shi Dongshan, film director and screenwriter (b. 1902)
- March 25 — Huang Binhong, literati painter and art historian (b. 1865)
- August 29 — Hong Shen, playwright, film director and screenwriter (b. 1894)
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Fernand Braudel (1989). Gramática das Civilizações (in Portuguese). teorema. p. 202.
