1958 in China

Events in the year 1958 in the People's Republic of China.

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: Chen Yu
• Governor of Guizhou Province: Zhou Lin (politician)
• Governor of Hebei Province: Lin Tie then Liu Zihou
• Governor of Heilongjiang Province: Ouyang Qin then Li Fanwu
• Governor of Henan Province: Wu Zhipu
• Governor of Hubei Province: 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 then Yuan Renyuan
• Governor of Qinghai Province:
• until month unknown: Sun Zuobin
• month unknown: Sun Junyi
• starting month unknown: Yuan Renyuan
• Governor of Shaanxi Province: Zhao Shoushan
• Governor of Shandong Province: Zhao Jianmin then Tan Qilong
• Governor of Shanxi Province: Wang Shiying then Wei Heng
• Governor of Sichuan Province: Li Dazhang
• Governor of Yunnan Province: Guo Yingqiu (until November), Ding Yichuan (starting November)
• Governor of Zhejiang Province: Huo Shilian (until January), Zhou Jianren (starting January)

Events

• February 11 – Marshal Chen Yi succeeds Premier Zhou Enlai as Chinese Minister of Foreign affairs.
• May 23 – Chairman Mao Zedong started his "Great Leap Forward" movement in the People's Republic of China.
• July 31 – Chinese–Tibet Uprising.
• August 23 – Chinese Civil War: The Second Taiwan Strait crisis begins with the People's Liberation Army's bombardment of Quemoy.
• October Unknown date — Sichan Radio Manufacturing, as predecessor of home appliance and visual electronic brand Changhong was founded.

Births

January

• January 20 — Huo Jianqi, film director

February

• February 1 — Tony Leung Ka-fai, Hong Kong actor
• February 5 — Huang Yubin, head coach of the Men's Artistic Gymnastics Team of China
• February 15 — Li Youbin, actor
• Wang Dongfeng, 16th Mayor of Tianjin

March

• March 5 — Yi Gang, 12th Governor of the People's Bank of China
• March 18 — Feng Xiaogang, film director, screenwriter, actor, producer and politician

May

• May 1 — Mang Hoi, Hong Kong actor and action director (d. 2023)

June

• June 18 — Michael Miu, Hong Kong actor and businessman

August

• August 17 — Chip Tsao, Hong Kong-based columnist, broadcaster and writer
• August 21 — Cora Miao, Hong Kong actress
• August 23 — Wang Shuo, writer
• August 30 — Yu Rongguang, actor and martial artist
• Bu Xiaolin, 11th Chairwoman of Inner Mongolia
• Che Dalha, 10th Chairman of the Tibet Autonomous Region

September

• September 2 — Hu Mei, film director, television director and producer
• September 7 — Danny Chan, Hong Kong singer, songwriter and actor (d. 1993)
• Chen Xuefeng, politician and mining executive from Henan

October

• October 2 — Dilber Yunus, Uyghur lyric soprano
• October 9 — Hui Ka Yan, former billionaire businessman

November

• November 6 — Bai Baoshan, serial killer (d. 1998)
• November 10 — Yang Liping, dancer and choreographer

December

• December 24 — Wang Luoyang, actor
• December 27 — Xu Shaohua, actor
• Guo Mingyi, philanthropist

Dates unknown

• Di Li Feng, contemporary artist

Deaths

• February 10
• Huang Jing, 1st Mayor of Tianjin (b. 1912)
• Yang Baosen, Peking opera singer (b. 1909)
• February 16 — Situ Qiao, oil painter and graphic artist (b. 1902)
• March 9 — Cheng Yanqiu, Peking opera singer (b. 1904)
• March 15 — Wang Chonghui, jurist, diplomat and politician (b. 1881)
• June 21 — Liu Yazi, poet and political activist (b. 1887)
• August 26 — Ji Xingwen, nationalist lieutenant general (b. 1908)
• September 30 — Tang Feifan, medical microbiologist (b. 1897)
• October 17 — Zheng Zhenduo, journalist, writer, archaeologist and scholar (b. 1898)
• December 13 — Luo Changpei, linguist (b. 1899)

See also

• 1958 in Chinese film

References