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

Incumbents

Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party The Chairman of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party () was the leader of the Chinese Communist Party. The position was established at the 8th National Congress in 1945 and abolished at the 12th National Congress in 1982, bei ...

Mao Zedong Mao Zedong pronounced ; also romanised traditionally as Mao Tse-tung. (26 December 1893 – 9 September 1976), also known as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese communist revolutionary who was the founder of the People's Republic of China (PRC) ...

President of the People's Republic of China The president of the People's Republic of China, commonly called the president of China, is the head of state and the second-highest political office of the People's Republic of China. The presidency is constitutionally a largely ceremonial off ...

Premier of the People's Republic of China The premier of the State Council of the People's Republic of China, commonly called the premier of China and sometimes also referred to as the prime minister, is the head of government of China and leader of the State Council. The premier is ...

Zhou Enlai Zhou Enlai (; 5 March 1898 – 8 January 1976) was a Chinese statesman and military officer who served as the first Premier of the People's Republic of China, premier of the People's Republic of China from 1 October 1949 until his death on 8 J ...

Chairman of the National People's Congress The chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress is the presiding officer of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPCSC), which is the permanent body of the National People's Congress, highest orga ...

Liu Shaoqi Liu Shaoqi ( ; 24 November 189812 November 1969) was a Chinese revolutionary, politician, and theorist. He was Chairman of the NPC Standing Committee from 1954 to 1959, First Vice Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party from 1956 to 1966 and C ...

Vice President of the People's Republic of China The vice president of the People's Republic of China (), also known as state vice chairman (), is a senior position in the government of the People's Republic of China. It was formerly translated as the vice chairman of the People's Republic of ...

Zhu De Zhu De (; ; also Chu Teh; 1 December 1886 – 6 July 1976) was a Chinese general, military strategist, politician and revolutionary in the Chinese Communist Party. Born into poverty in 1886 in Sichuan, he was adopted by a wealthy uncle at ...

Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China The vice premiers of the State Council of the People's Republic of China () are high-ranking officials under the premier and above the state councillors and ministers. Generally, the title is held by multiple individuals at any given time, with ...

Chen Yun Chen Yun (, pronounced ; 13 June 1905 – 10 April 1995) was one of the most influential leaders of the People's Republic of China during the 1980s and 1990s and one of the major architects and important policy makers for the Reform and op ...

Governors

* Governor of Anhui Province:

Zeng Xisheng Zeng Xisheng () (October 11, 1904 – July 15, 1968) was a Chinese politician. He was born in Xingning, Hunan Province (now Zixing, Hunan Province). He was the first Chinese Communist Party Committee Secretary of Anhui Province and also its 1st g ...

then Huang Yan * Governor of Fujian Province:

Ye Fei Ye Fei (; 7 May 1914 – 18 April 1999) was a Philippine-born Chinese military general and politician of the People's Republic of China. Born Sixto Mercado Tiongco in the Philippines to a Chinese father and a Filipino mother, he joined the Chi ...

* Governor of Gansu Province:

Deng Baoshan Deng Baoshan () (1894 – November 27, 1968) was a People's Republic of China politician. He was born in Tianshui, Gansu Province. He was commander of the New 1st Army. During the Xi'an Incident of 1936, he supported Zhang Xueliang Chang ...

* Governor of Guangdong Province:

Tao Zhu Tao Zhu (; 16 January 1908 – 30 November 1969) was a member of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party . Biography Born in Qiyang, Hunan, Tao Zhu was Secretary of the Guangdong Provincial Committee and Commander of the ...

* Governor of Guizhou Province: Zhou Lin * Governor of Hebei Province:

Lin Tie Lin Tie (; November 1904 – 17 August 1989) was a Communist revolutionary leader and politician of the People's Republic of China (PRC). He served as the first Communist Party Chief and the second Governor of Hebei province of the PRC, but was p ...

* Governor of Heilongjiang Province:

Han Guang Han Guang (died 206 BC) was the ruler of the Kingdom of Liaodong () of the Eighteen Kingdoms during the Chu–Han Contention, an interregnum between the Qin and Han dynasties of China. Han Guang was initially a minor official serving in the ...

* Governor of Henan Province:

Wu Zhipu Wu Zhipu () (1906–1967) was the first CPC governor of Henan and CPC Committee Secretary of Henan. He was born in Henan. Wu pressured his subordinates to harvest grain well in excess of official quotas during the Great Leap Forward The Grea ...

* Governor of Hubei Province:

Liu Zihou Liu Zihou (; December 1909 – December 22, 2001) was a Communist revolutionary leader and politician of the People's Republic of China. He served as Governor of Hubei and Hebei provinces, and as the top leader of Hebei during the Cultural Revol ...

then

Zhang Tixue Zhang Tixue () (1915–1973) born Zhang Tizhao () was a People's Republic of China politician. He was born in Xin County, Henan Province. He was Communist Party of China Committee Secretary and Governor of Hubei (1956). 1915 births 1973 de ...

* Governor of Hunan Province:

Cheng Qian Cheng Qian (; 31 March 1882 – 5 April 1968) was a Chinese army officer and politician who held very important military and political positions in both the Republic of China and the People's Republic of China.Wolfgang Bartke, ''Who was Who in the ...

* Governor of Jiangsu Province:

Tan Zhenlin Tan Zhenlin (; 24 April 1902 – 30 September 1983) was a political commissar in the People's Liberation Army during the Chinese Civil War, and a politician after the establishment of the People's Republic of China. Tan Zhenlin was born in You C ...

then

Hui Yuyu Hui Yuyu () (1909 – July 1989) was a People's Republic of China politician. He was the older brother of Zhou Hui, Communist Party of China Committee Secretary of Hunan and Inner Mongolia. He was born in Guannan County, Jiangsu Province. He was t ...

* Governor of Jiangxi Province:

Shao Shiping Shao Shiping () (1900–1965) was a Chinese politician. He was born in Yiyang County, Jiangxi Province in the People's Republic of China. He joined the Communist Youth League of China and the Communist Party of China in 1925. In January 1928, a ...

* Governor of Jilin Province:

Li Youwen Li Youwen () (1901–1984) was a People's Republic of China politician. He was born in Liaoyang County, Liaoning Province. He served as Governor of Jilin Province. He was a delegate to the 5th National People's Congress The 5th National Peo ...

* Governor of Liaoning Province: Du Zheheng * Governor of Qinghai Province: Sun Zuobin * Governor of Shaanxi Province:

Zhao Shoushan Zhao Shoushan (; 12 November 1894 – 20 June 1965) was a KMT general and later Chinese Communist Party politician. He is the grandfather of Zhao Leji. Career Zhao Shoushan was born in Hu County, Shaanxi in 1894. After the foundation of the Peop ...

* Governor of Shandong Province:

Kang Sheng Kang Sheng (; 4 November 1898 – 16 December 1975) was a Chinese Communist politician best known for having overseen the CCP's internal security and intelligence apparatus during the early 1940s and again at the height of the Cultural Revolut ...

then Zhao Jianmin * Governor of Shanxi Province:

Pei Lisheng image:Pei Lisheng.jpg, 200px, right Pei Lisheng (; October 31, 1906 – March 18, 2000) was a People's Republic of China politician. He was born in Yuanqu County, Shanxi Province. He was a graduate of Tsinghua University. He was twice governor of ...

* Governor of Sichuan Province:

Li Jingquan Li Jingquan (; November 1, 1909 – April 24, 1989) was a Chinese politician and the first Party Committee Secretary (governor) of Sichuan following the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949. He supported many of Mao Zedong's po ...

then Li Dazhang * Governor of Yunnan Province:

Chen Geng Chen Geng (; 27 February 1903 - 16 March 1961) was a Chinese military officer who served as a senior general in the People's Liberation Army. Enlisting in a warlord's army at the age of 13, Chen Geng joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1922 and ...

then

Guo Yingqiu Guo Yingqiu (; 1909–1985) was a Chinese politician and educator. Biography Guo Yingqiu was born in Tongshan County, Jiangsu in 1909. He was the Governor of Yunnan and the President of Nanjing University and Renmin University The Renmin Un ...

* Governor of Zhejiang Province:

then Sha Wenhan

Events

* Continuing Kuomintang Islamic insurgency in China * January 18 to January 20 -

Battle of Yijiangshan Islands The Battle of Yijiangshan Islands () was a conflict between forces of the National Revolutionary Army (NRA) of the Republic of China and the People's Liberation Army (PLA) of the People's Republic of China, over one of the last strongholds ...

* January 19 to February 26 -

Battle of Dachen Archipelago The Battle of Dachen Archipelago () was a struggle between the Nationalists and the Communists for the control of several archipelagos just off the coast of Zhejiang, China, during the Chinese Civil War in the post-World War II era, and it was ...

* January 29 - Formosa Resolution of 1955 * April 11 -

Kashmir Princess The ''Kashmir Princess'', or Air India Flight 300, was a chartered Lockheed L-749A Constellation flight owned by Air India. On 11 April 1955, it was damaged in midair by a bomb explosion and crashed into the South China Sea while en route f ...

* until May 1 -

First Taiwan Strait Crisis The First Taiwan Strait Crisis (also the Formosa Crisis, the 1954–1955 Taiwan Strait Crisis, the Offshore Islands Crisis, the Quemoy-Matsu Crisis, and the 1955 Taiwan Strait Crisis) was a brief armed conflict between the Communist People's ...

* August - Start of the

Sufan movement The Sufan movement (; "Campaign to Eradicate Hidden Counterrevolutionaries") was a purge of perceived opponents in the People's Republic of China under Mao Zedong, between 1955 and 1957. The term "sufan" is short for "肅清暗藏的反革命分 ...

* September–November Bumper rice and wheat crop

Other events

* July - Opening of

Taizhou Luqiao Airport Taizhou Luqiao Airport , formerly Huangyan Luqiao Airport, is a dual-use military and civil airport serving the city of Taizhou in Zhejiang Province, China. It is located in Luqiao District, 20 kilometers from the city center. In 2010 the air ...

* Opening of the

Chongqing Zoo Chongqing Zoo is a zoo in the city of Chongqing, China, about 8 km (5 miles) southwest from the city centre. Overview The zoo is located at Yangjiaping on Xijiao Road in the Jiulongpo District of Chongqing. It was built in 1953 and officia ...

* Completion of the Sino-Soviet Friendship Building, in

Shanghai Shanghai (; , , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ) is one of the four direct-administered municipalities of the People's Republic of China (PRC). The city is located on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the Huangpu River flow ...

Other establishments

* Pingshi Prison * Shushan Prison *

Sunan Shuofang International Airport Sunan Shuofang International Airport is an airport serving the cities of Wuxi and Suzhou in southern Jiangsu Province, China (Sunan meaning "Southern Jiangsu" in Chinese). It is located in in Xinwu District, southeast of Wuxi and northwest ...

Education

* Establishments: **

Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications The Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT) () is a key national university distinguished by the teaching and research in the field of cable communications, wireless communications, computer, and electronic engineering. BUP ...

China Foreign Affairs University China Foreign Affairs University (CFAU; ) is a public university for diplomats located in Beijing, China. It is jointly administrated by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Education. It is a Chinese state Double First Class ...

Chongqing Communication Institute Chongqing Communication Institute (), also known as Chongqing Telecommunication Institute, is a college located in Geleshan, Shapingba District in the Chinese municipality of Chongqing. Founded in 1950, the college is best known for its contri ...

** Chongqing No.1 Middle School ** Guangdong Institute of Education **

Zhongyuan University of Technology Zhongyuan University of Technology (Simplified Chinese: 中原工学院 Zhōngyuán gōng xuéyuàn), formerly Zhengzhou Textile Institute (郑州纺织学院 Zhèngzhōu fǎngzhī xuéyuàn), is a public university in Zhengzhou, Henan Hena ...

Sports

* Establishment of Jilin FC

Births

Li Qiang Li Qiang (; born 23 July 1959) is a Chinese politician and a senior leader of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), serving as the second-ranking member of the 20th CCP Politburo Standing Committee, behind CCP general secretary Xi Jinping. From 2 ...

* Mai Cheng * Yang Yumin * Lu Ke * Ding Lieyun *

Jing Yidan Jing Yidan (; born 27 April 1955) is a former Chinese host. She won China's Golden Mike Award in 1993, 1995 and 1997. She is the vice president of the China Association of Radio and Television and was a delegate to the 9th National People's Congre ...

Wang Jiasheng Wang Jiasheng (; born January 1955) is a retired general ('' Shangjiang'') of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) of China. He was Political Commissar of the PLA Rocket Force (previously known as the Second Artillery Force) from 2014 to 2020. He ...

Deaths

Hong Shen Hong Shen (; 31 December 1894 – 29 August 1955) was a Chinese playwright, film director and screenwriter, film and drama theorist, and educator. He is considered by drama historians as one of the three founders of Chinese spoken drama, togethe ...

Huang Binhong Huáng Bīnhóng (; 1865–1955) was a Chinese literati painter and art historian born in Jinhua, Zhejiang province. His ancestral home was She County, Anhui province.Cihai: Page 2056. He was the grandson of artist Huang Fengliu. He would lat ...

Shi Dongshan Shi Dongshan (December 29, 1902 – February 23, 1955), born Shi Kuangshao, was one of the most prominent film directors and screenwriters in pre-Communist China, together with Chen Liting, Cai Chusheng, and Zheng Junli. His most notable film was ...

References

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