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1972 In China
Events from the year 1972 in China. Incumbents * Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party – Mao Zedong * President of the People's Republic of China – ''vacant'' * 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 – Deng Xiaoping Governors * Governor of Anhui Province – Li Desheng * Governor of Fujian Province – Han Xianchu * Governor of Gansu Province – Xian Henghan * Governor of Guangdong Province – Liu Xingyuan (until April), Ding Sheng (starting April) * Governor of Guizhou Province – Lan Yinong * Governor of Hebei Province – Liu Zihou * Governor of Heilongjiang Province – Wang Jiadao * Governor of Henan Province – Liu Jianxun * Governor of Hubei Province – Zeng Siyu * Governor of Hunan Provinc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and borders fourteen countries by land, the most of any country in the world, tied with Russia. Covering an area of approximately , it is the world's third largest country by total land area. The country consists of 22 provinces, five autonomous regions, four municipalities, and two Special Administrative Regions (Hong Kong and Macau). The national capital is Beijing, and the most populous city and financial center is Shanghai. Modern Chinese trace their origins to a cradle of civilization in the fertile basin of the Yellow River in the North China Plain. The semi-legendary Xia dynasty in the 21st century BCE and the well-attested Shang and Zhou dynasties developed a bureaucratic political system to serve hereditary monarchies, or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |