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Events in the year
1979 in the
People's Republic of China
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Contents
Incumbents
Governors
Events
January
February
March
September
Births
Deaths
See also
References
Incumbents
Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party
–
Hua Guofeng
Premier of the People's Republic of China
–
Hua Guofeng
Chairman of the National People's Congress
–
Ye Jianying
Chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
–
Deng Xiaoping
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China
–
Deng Xiaoping
Governors
Governor of Anhui Province
–
Wan Li
then
Zhang Jingfu
Governor of Fujian Province
–
Liao Zhigao
then
Ma Xingyuan
Governor of Gansu Province
–
Song Ping
then
Li Dengying
Governor of Guangdong Province
–
Wei Guoqing
then
Xi Zhongxun
Governor of Guizhou Province
–
Ma Li
(until unknown)
Governor of Hebei Province
–
Liu Zihou
Governor of Heilongjiang Province
–
Yang Yichen
then
Chen Lei
Governor of Henan Province
–
Duan Junyi
then
Liu Jie
Governor of Hubei Province
–
Chen Pixian
then
Han Ningfu
Governor of Hunan Province
–
Mao Zhiyong
then
Sun Guozhi
Governor of Jiangsu Province
–
Xu Jiatun
then
Hui Yuyu
Governor of Jiangxi Province
–
Jiang Weiqing
then
Bai Dongcai
Governor of Jilin Province
–
Wang Enmao
Governor of Liaoning Province
–
vacant
Governor of Qinghai Province
–
Tan Qilong
then
Zhang Guosheng
Governor of Shaanxi Province
–
Wang Renzhong
then
Yu Mingtao
Governor of Shandong Province
–
Bai Rubing
then
Su Yiran
Governor of Shanxi Province
–
Wang Qian
then
Luo Guibo
Governor of Sichuan Province
–
Zhao Ziyang
then
Lu Dadong
Governor of Yunnan Province
–
An Pingsheng
then
Liu Minghui
Governor of Zhejiang Province
–
Tie Ying
then
Li Fengping
Events
Vice Premier
Deng Xiaoping
with
U.S. President
Jimmy Carter
, 31 January 1979
January
January 1 — The
United States
broke diplomatic relations with Republic of China, and established
diplomatic relations
with the
People's Republic of China
.
January - The
One Child Policy
is announced and implemented (est.)
[
1
]
February
February 17 – The
People's Republic of China
invades northern
Vietnam
, launching the
Sino-Vietnamese War
.
March
March 5 – Zhuhai County was upgraded to
Zhuhai
City.
March 14 – In
China
, a
Hawker Siddeley Trident
crashes into a factory near
Beijing
, killing at least 260.
September
September 27 –
Stars Art Exhibition
, the first independent art exhibition, takes place in
Beihai Park
, Beijing
Births
January 13 –
Yang Wei
, Badminton player
February 9 –
Zhang Ziyi
, film actress
February 17 –
Xu Yunlong
, footballer
March 5 –
Tang Gonghong
, Chinese weightlifter
March 12 –
Liu Xuan
, Gymnast
March 14 –
Gao Ling
, badminton player
May 15 –
Li Yanfeng
, discus thrower
April 19 –
Zhao Junzhe
, footballer
June 14 –
Ma Ning
, association football referee
June 20 –
Li Yi
, footballer
July 19 –
Mo Huilan
, gymnast
August 15 –
Tong Jian
, pair skater
August 27 –
Tian Liang
, diver
September 18 –
Bobo Chan
, Musical artist
October 5 –
Gao Yuanyuan
, actress and model
October 7 –
Tang Wei
, actress
December 10 –
Yang Jianping
, archer
[
2
]
December 24 –
Pang Qing
, figure skater
December 27 –
Sa Dingding
, folk singer and songwriter
Deaths
January 15 —
Yang Zhongjian
, vertebrate paleontologist (b.
1897
)
February 7
Su Zhenhua
, general and politician (b.
1912
)
Cui Wei
, film director and actor (b.
1912
)
March 7 —
Lei Chen
, Taiwanese politician and dissident (b.
1897
)
March 12 —
Zheng Xiaocang
, writer, translator, and educator (b.
1892
)
March 30 —
Tong Dizhou
, embryologist (b.
1902
)
May 27 —
Yao Zhe
, lieutenant general of the
People's Liberation Army
(b.
1906
)
June 30 —
Zhou Shidi
, general of the
People's Liberation Army
(b.
1900
)
July 1 —
Huang Minlon
, organic chemist and pharmaceutical scientist (b.
1898
)
July 4 —
Lee Wai Tong
, Hong Kong and Chinese international association football player, head coach and former Vice President of
FIFA
(b.
1905
)
August 1 —
Li Ji
, influential archaeologist (b.
1896
)
August 14 —
Wang Yun-wu
, scholar of history and political science (b.
1888
)
August 27 —
Shi Jianqiao
, assassin of the Warlord
Sun Chuanfang
(b.
1905
)
September 25 —
Zhou Libo
, novelist and translator (b.
1908
)
October 13 —
Chang Kia-ngau
, banker, politician and scholar (b.
1889
)
December 3 —
Zhang Guotao
, revolutionary, founding member of the
Chinese Communist Party
and a rival to
Mao Zedong
(b.
1897
)
See also
1979 in Chinese film
References
↑
Rocha da Silva, Pascal (2006). "
La politique de l'enfant unique en République populaire de Chine
Archived
2007-11-28 at the
Wayback Machine
" ("The politics of one child in the People's Republic of China"). Université de Genève (
University of Geneva
). p. 22-8.
(in French)
↑
"Jianping YANG - Olympic Archery | People's Republic of China"
.
International Olympic Committee
. 18 June 2016
. Retrieved
3 July
2019
.
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