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
[edit]- January 1 — Yang Yumin, footballer
- January 9 — Qiao Liang, military theorist and author
- January 17 — Zhang Guoli, actor and film director
- Wang Jiasheng, former Political Commissar of the People's Liberation Army Rocket Force
February
[edit]- February 1 — Shing Fui-On, Hong Kong actor (d. 2009)
- February 4 — He Lifeng, economist and politician
- February 8 — Xu Bing, artist
- February 17 — Mo Yan, novelist and short story writer
March
[edit]- March 5 — Wang Yang, 9th Chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
- March 13 — Edmund Ho, 1st Chief Executive of Macau
- March 18 — Paul Chan Mo-po, 5th Financial Secretary of Hong Kong
- March 19 — Simon Yam, Hong Kong actor and film producer
April
[edit]- April 20 — Xi Meijuan, actress
- April 26 — Chen Daoming, actor
- April 27 — Jing Yidan, former television host
May
[edit]- May 18 — Chow Yun-fat, Hong Kong actor and film actor
June
[edit]- June 9 — Guo Da, actor and sketch comedy performer
- June 15 — Zheng Yuanjie, children's writer
July
[edit]- July 3 — Li Keqiang, 7th Premier of China (d. 2023)
- July 17
- Li Shaohong, film director and producer
- Fei Yu-ching, Taiwanese singer and television host
August
[edit]- August 22 — Gordon Liu, Hong Kong actor and martial artist
September
[edit]- September 8 — Fan Zhiqi, actor (d. 2010)
- September 16 — Zhang Haidi, writer
- September 18 — Liu Cigui, 10th Secretary of the Hainan Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party
- September 23 — Ma Shaohua, Hui actor
October
[edit]- October 6 — Wang Huning, 10th Chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
- October 26 — Wong Yue, Hong Kong martial arts film actor (d. 2008)
- October 30 — Liu Xiaoqing, actress and businesswoman
- Yu Weiguo, 13th Secretary of the Fujian Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party
- Song Xiuyan, 17th Governor of Qinghai
November
[edit]- November 22 — Ding Lieyun, management scientist and educator
- Chen Quanguo, Member of the 19th Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party
- Li Qiang, politician from Jiangsu province
December
[edit]- December 5 — Cai Qi, First-ranked Secretary of the 20th Secretariat of the Chinese Communist Party
- December 7 — He Qun, filmmaker (d. 2016)
- December 28 — Liu Xiaobo, literary critic and human rights activist (d. 2017)
Unknown dates
[edit]- Mai Cheng, Norwegian painter
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.
