Events in the year 1953 in China.
- July 8 - Zhou Long, Pulitzer-prize-winning Chinese American composer
- April 4 - Chen Yi, Chinese violinist and composer of contemporary classical music
- Jing Jing Luo, a Chinese composer
- June 15 - Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Communist Party (paramount leader) and 7th President of China
- September 17 – Wenxiu, consort of China's last emperor Puyi (born 1909).
- September 26 – Xu Beihong, Chinese painter (born 1895)