1968 in China

← 1967 1966 1965 1964 1963 1968 in China → 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973
Decades:	1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s
See also:	Other events of 1968 History of China  • Timeline  • Years

Events from the year 1968 in China.

Incumbents[edit]

• Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party – Mao Zedong
• President of the People's Republic of China – Liu Shaoqi (until November)
• 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 – Lin Biao

Governors[edit]

• Governor of Anhui Province – Li Desheng
• Governor of Fujian Province – Han Xianchu
• Governor of Gansu Province – Xian Henghan
• Governor of Guangdong Province – Huang Yongsheng
• Governor of Guizhou Province – Li Zaihe
• Governor of Hebei Province – Liu Zihou (until February), Li Xuefeng (starting February)
• Governor of Heilongjiang Province – Pan Fusheng
• Governor of Henan Province – Liu Jianxun
• Governor of Hubei Province – Zeng Siyu
• Governor of Hunan Province – Li Yuan
• Governor of Jiangsu Province – Xu Shiyou
• Governor of Jiangxi Province – Cheng Shiqing
• Governor of Jilin Province – Wang Huaixiang
• Governor of Liaoning Province – Chen Xilian
• Governor of Qinghai Province – Liu Xianquan
• Governor of Shaanxi Province – Li Ruishan
• Governor of Shandong Province – Wang Xiaoyu
• Governor of Shanxi Province – Liu Geping
• Governor of Sichuan Province – Zhang Guohua
• Governor of Yunnan Province – Tan Furen
• Governor of Zhejiang Province – Nan Ping

Events[edit]

• Cleansing the Class Ranks

• Opening of the South-North route

• Shaoyang County Massacre

• Third five-year plan

• The Whole Country is Red

• Zhao Jianmin Spy Case

Births[edit]

• Robin Li
• Robin Zeng
• Huang Jianxiang
• Wang Huifeng
• Liang Chow

Deaths[edit]

• July 15 – Cai Chusheng, film director (born 1906)
• July 16 – Hu Xiansu, botanist (born 1894)
• November 23 – Shangguan Yunzhu, actress active from the 1940s to the 1960s (born 1920)
• December 10 – Tian Han, playwright and writer (born 1898)

See also[edit]

• 1968 in Chinese film