1955 in China

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Last updated July 28, 2025

Events in the year 1955 in China. The country had an estimated population of 605 million people.^[1]

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

Events

Continuing Kuomintang Islamic insurgency in China
January 18 to January 20 — Battle of Yijiangshan Islands
January 19 to February 26 — Battle of Dachen Archipelago
January 29 — Formosa Resolution of 1955
April 11 — Kashmir Princess
until May 1 — First Taiwan Strait Crisis
August — Start of the Sufan movement
September–November Bumper rice and wheat crop

Other events

July — Opening of Taizhou Luqiao Airport
Opening of the Chongqing Zoo
Completion of the Sino-Soviet Friendship Building, in Shanghai

Other establishments

Education

Establishments:

Sports

Establishment of Jilin FC

Births

January

January 1 — Yang Yumin, footballer
January 9 — Qiao Liang, military theorist and author
January 17 — Zhang Guoli, actor and film director
Wang Jiasheng, former Political Commissar of the People's Liberation Army Rocket Force

February

February 1 — Shing Fui-On, Hong Kong actor (d. 2009)
February 4 — He Lifeng, economist and politician
February 8 — Xu Bing, artist
February 17 — Mo Yan, novelist and short story writer
Bagatur, 10th Chairman of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region

March

March 5 — Wang Yang, 9th Chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
March 13 — Edmund Ho, 1st Chief Executive of Macau
March 18 — Paul Chan Mo-po, 5th Financial Secretary of Hong Kong
March 19 — Simon Yam, Hong Kong actor and film producer
Hu Zejun, politician
Fu Zhenghua, former politician and public security officer

April

April 20 — Xi Meijuan, actress
April 26 — Chen Daoming, actor
April 27 — Jing Yidan, former television host

May

May 18 — Chow Yun-fat, Hong Kong actor and film actor
May 20 — Miao Wei, manufacturing executive and politician
May 27 — Luo Shugang, politician

June

June 9 — Guo Da, actor and sketch comedy performer
June 15 — Zheng Yuanjie, children's writer
June 16 — Cai Mingzhao, politician and journalist

July

July 3 — Li Keqiang, 7th Premier of China (d. 2023)
July 17
- Li Shaohong, film director and producer
- Fei Yu-ching, Taiwanese singer and television host

August

August 22 — Gordon Liu, Hong Kong actor and martial artist

September

September 8 — Fan Zhiqi, actor (d. 2010)
September 16 — Zhang Haidi, writer
September 18 — Liu Cigui, 10th Secretary of the Hainan Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party
September 23 — Ma Shaohua, Hui actor
Bi Jingquan, politician

October

October 6 — Wang Huning, 10th Chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
October 26 — Wong Yue, Hong Kong martial arts film actor (d. 2008)
October 30 — Liu Xiaoqing, actress and businesswoman
Zhong Shan, politician and business executive
Yu Weiguo, 13th Secretary of the Fujian Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party
Song Xiuyan, 17th Governor of Qinghai

November

November 22 — Ding Lieyun, management scientist and educator
Chen Quanguo, Member of the 19th Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party
Li Qiang, politician from Jiangsu province

December

December 5 — Cai Qi, First-ranked Secretary of the 20th Secretariat of the Chinese Communist Party
December 7 — He Qun, filmmaker (d. 2016)
December 28 — Liu Xiaobo, literary critic and human rights activist (d. 2017)
Wang Yong, former State Councilor of China

Unknown dates

Mai Cheng, Norwegian painter

Deaths

February 9 — Zhang Lan, 1st Chairman of the China Democratic League (b. 1872)
February 23 — Shi Dongshan, film director and screenwriter (b. 1902)
March 23 — Kai Feng, communist revolutionary and politician (b. 1906)
March 25 — Huang Binhong, literati painter and art historian (b. 1865)
April 1 — Lin Huiyin, architect, writer and poet (b. 1904)
August 29 — Hong Shen, playwright, film director and screenwriter (b. 1894)

References

↑ Fernand Braudel (1989). Gramática das Civilizações (in Portuguese). teorema. p. 202.

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[1] Fernand Braudel (1989). Gramática das Civilizações (in Portuguese). teorema. p. 202.

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