1962 in China

Events from the year 1962 in China.

Incumbents

• Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party – Mao Zedong
• President of the People's Republic of China – Liu Shaoqi
• Premier of the People's Republic of China – Zhou Enlai
• Chairman of the National People's Congress – Zhu De
• Vice President of the People's Republic of China – Soong Ching-ling and Dong Biwu
• Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China – Chen Yun

Governors

• Governor of Anhui Province – Huang Yan
• Governor of Fujian Province –
• until unknown: Wu Hongxiang
• month unknown: Jiang Yizhen
• starting month unknown: Wei Jinshui
• Governor of Gansu Province – Deng Baoshan
• Governor of Guangdong Province – Chen Yu
• Governor of Guizhou Province – Zhou Lin
• Governor of Hebei Province – Liu Zihou
• Governor of Heilongjiang Province – Li Fanwu
• Governor of Henan Province – Wu Zhipu then Wen Minsheng
• 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 – Huang Oudong
• Governor of Qinghai Province – Yuan Renyuan
• Governor of Shaanxi Province – Zhao Boping
• Governor of Shandong Province – Tan Qilong
• Governor of Shanxi Province – Wei Heng
• Governor of Sichuan Province – Li Dazhang
• Governor of Yunnan Province – Ding Yichuan
• Governor of Zhejiang Province – Zhou Jianren

Events

• Four Pests campaign

Establishments

• Yiling Senior High School
• Beijing Language and Culture University
• Chinese Xiangqi Association
• Hundred Flowers Awards
• Nanning Wuxu International Airport

Births

• December - Li Xi
• January - Wang Xiaodong
• June 9 - Zhu Minzhu
• July 28 - Liang Weifen
• November 28 - Ma Yongfeng

Deaths

• February 9 — Li Kenong, general and politician (b. 1899)
• February 14 — Hu Zongnan, general in the National Revolutionary Army and the Republic of China Army (b. 1896)
• February 24 — Hu Shih, academic, writer and politician (b. 1891)
• May 19 — Mei Yiqi, politician, physicist and educator (b. 1889)
• June 27 — Long Yun, warlord and former governor of Yunnan (b. 1884)
• August 15 — Lei Feng, soldier in the People's Liberation Army who was object of several major propaganda campaigns in China (b. 1940)
• September 19 — John Leighton Stuart, missionary educator, 1st President of Yenching University and later American ambassador to China (b. 1876)
• September 21 — Ouyang Yuqian, playwright, Peking opera actor and writer, film screenwriter and director and drama educator (b. 1889)
• October 1 — Lu Dachang, nationalist general from Gansu (b. 1889)
• December 24 — Li Jieren, writer and translator (b. 1891)

See also

• Timeline of Chinese history
• 1962 in Chinese film

References