1956 in China

Events in the year 1956 in China. The country had an estimated population of 620 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: 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 then Ouyang Qin
• 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: 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: Zhao Jianmin
• Governor of Shanxi Province: Pei Lisheng then Wang Shiying
• Governor of Sichuan Province: Li Dazhang
• Governor of Yunnan Province: Guo Yingqiu
• Governor of Zhejiang Province: Sha Wenhan

Events

• September 28 — First Plenary Session of the 8th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party
• September 28 — Election of the 8th Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party
• Hundred Flowers Campaign
• Continuing Kuomintang Islamic insurgency in China

Other events

• Establishment of the Chinese Skating Association
• Establishment of the Shanghai Natural History Museum
• Hnhhot Huimin Cattle and Breeding Association, as predecessor of Yili Diary Group was founded in Inner Mongolia.
• Shaoxinggaoji High School is founded.

Education

• Establishments:
• Beijing University of Chinese Medicine
• Capital University of Economics and Business
• Central Institute for Correctional Police
• Chongqing Medical University
• Chongqing Three Gorges University
• First Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University
• Hangzhou Xuejun High School
• High School Affiliated to Beijing International Studies University

Sports

• Establishment of Jilin Northeast Tigers
• Chinese Sports Committee oversees creation of new, simplified (and shorter) 24 Form Tai Chi. Due to this official promotion, the 24-form is most likely the Taiji form with the most practitioners in China and the world over.

Births

January

• January 5 — Tong Xiaolin, physician
• January 11 — Geoffrey Ma, 3rd Chief Judge of the High Court of Hong Kong

February

• February 25 — Wei Zi, film and television actor

March

• March 9 — Chen Baoguo, actor

June

• June 21 — Larry Hsien Ping Lang, Hong Kong-based economist, commentator, author and TV host
• June 22 — Sima Nan, television pundit, social commentator and journalist

August

• August 13 — Li Hongzhong, member of the 20th Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party
• August 15 — Lu Shuming, actor (d. 2022)
• August 30 — King Pu-tsung, Taiwanese politician
• August 31 — Tsai Ing-wen, Taiwanese politician

September

• September 1 — Zhang Fengyi, actor
• September 2 — Cheung Ming-man, Hong Kong singer and occasional actor
• September 12 — Leslie Cheung, Hong Kong singer and actor (d. 2003)
• September 30 — Teresa Carpio, Hong Kong English and Cantonese language pop singer, actress and singing teacher
• Shi Taifeng, member of the 20th Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party

October

• October 1 — Hou Dejian, Taiwanese songwriter, composer and singer
• October 2 — Deng Zongquan, scientist
• October 3 — Chang Chen-kuang, Taiwanese actor
• October 7 — Sun Haiying, actor
• October 12 — Regina Hing Yue Tsang, actress, singer and beauty pageant
• October 16 — Li Xi, 13th Secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection

November

• November 15 — Huang Kunming, member of the 20th Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party

December

• December 27 — Wu Yingjie, 14th Secretary of the Tibet Autonomous Regional Committee of the Chinese Communist Party
• December 30 — Yuen Kwok-yung, Hong Kong microbiologist, physician and surgeon

Deaths

• March 7 — Yang Zhensheng, educator and author (b. 1890)
• April 2 — Tan Pingshan, early member of the Chinese Communist Party (b. 1886)
• April 25 — He Jian, nationalist general (b. 1887)
• August 23 — Li Du, leading general of the Jilin Self-Defence Army (b. 1880)
• December 11 — Mao Renfeng, nationalist general and spymaster (b. 1898)

See also

• 1956 in Chinese film

References