1955 in China

Events in the year 1955 in China. The country had an estimated population of 605 million people.

Incumbents

• 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

• 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

• 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

• July — Opening of Taizhou Luqiao Airport
• Opening of the Chongqing Zoo
• Completion of the Sino-Soviet Friendship Building, in Shanghai

Other establishments

• Pingshi Prison
• Shushan Prison
• Sunan Shuofang International Airport

Education

• Establishments:
• Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
• China Foreign Affairs University
• Chongqing Communication Institute
• Chongqing No.1 Middle School
• Guangdong Institute of Education
• Zhongyuan University of Technology

Sports

• Establishment of Jilin FC

Births

January

• 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

• 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
• Bagatur, 10th Chairman of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region

March

• 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
• Hu Zejun, politician
• Fu Zhenghua, former politician and public security officer

April

• April 20 — Xi Meijuan, actress
• April 26 — Chen Daoming, actor
• April 27 — Jing Yidan, former television host

May

• May 18 — Chow Yun-fat, Hong Kong actor and film actor
• May 20 — Miao Wei, manufacturing executive and politician
• May 27 — Luo Shugang, politician

June

• June 9 — Guo Da, actor and sketch comedy performer
• June 15 — Zheng Yuanjie, children's writer
• June 16 — Cai Mingzhao, politician and journalist

July

• 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

• August 22 — Gordon Liu, Hong Kong actor and martial artist

September

• September 8 — , 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
• Bi Jingquan, politician

October

• 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
• Zhong Shan, politician and business executive
• Yu Weiguo, 13th Secretary of the Fujian Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party
• Song Xiuyan, 17th Governor of Qinghai

November

• 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

• 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)
• Wang Yong, former State Councilor of China

Unknown dates

• Mai Cheng, Norwegian painter

Deaths

• February 9 — Zhang Lan, 1st Chairman of the China Democratic League (b. 1872)
• February 23 — Shi Dongshan, film director and screenwriter (b. 1902)
• March 23 — Kai Feng, communist revolutionary and politician (b. 1906)
• March 25 — Huang Binhong, literati painter and art historian (b. 1865)
• April 1 — Lin Huiyin, architect, writer and poet (b. 1904)
• August 29 — Hong Shen, playwright, film director and screenwriter (b. 1894)

See also

• 1955 in Chinese film

References