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Events in the year 1953 in China.

CALAMITY DAMAGE AND CROP DATA, APRIL-OCTOBER 1953, EXTRACTED FROM CHINESE COMMUNIST PRESS (CIA, 1954)

## Incumbents

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* Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party – Mao Zedong
* Chairman of the Government – Mao Zedong
* Vice Chairmen of the Government – Zhu De Liu Shaoqi, Song Qingling, Li Jishen, Zhang Lan, Gao Gang
* Premier – Zhou Enlai
* Vice Premiers – Dong Biwu, Chen Yun, Guo Moruo, Huang Yanpei, Deng Xiaoping

### Governors

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* Governor of Anhui Province – Zeng Xisheng
* Governor of Fujian Province – Zhang Dingcheng
* Governor of Gansu Province – Deng Baoshan
* Governor of Guangdong Province – Ye Jianying (until September), Tao Zhu (starting September)
* Governor of Guizhou Province – Yang Yong
* Governor of Hebei Province – Yang Xiufeng
* Governor of Heilongjiang Province – Zhao Dezun then Chen Lei
* Governor of Henan Province – Wu Zhipu
* Governor of Hubei Province – Li Xiannian
* Governor of Hunan Province – Cheng Qian
* Governor of Jiangsu Province – Tan Zhenlin
* Governor of Jiangxi Province – Shao Shiping
* Governor of Jilin Province – Li Youwen
* Governor of Liaoning Province – Du Zheheng
* Governor of Qinghai Province – Zhang Zhongliang
* Governor of Shaanxi Province – Zhao Shoushan
* Governor of Shandong Province – Kang Sheng
* Governor of Shanxi Province – Pei Lisheng
* Governor of Sichuan Province – Li Jingquan
* Governor of Yunnan Province – Chen Geng
* Governor of Zhejiang Province – Tan Zhenlin

## Events

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* July 15 - FAW Group (First Automobile Group) was founded.[citation needed]
* July 27 – The Korean War ends: United Nations Command (Korea) (United States), People's Republic of China, North Korea sign an armistice agreement.
* September 5 – The United Nations rejects the Soviet Union's suggestion to accept the People's Republic of China as a member.

## Births

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### January

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* January 29 — Teresa Teng, Taiwanese singer and actress (d. 1995)
* January 30 — Liu Qibao, member of the 18th Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party
* Zhu Xiaodan, 16th Governor of Guangdong

### February

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* February 18 — Charles Xue, Chinese-American entrepreneur and angel investor
* February 20 — Jenny Tseng, singer
* February 22 — Blackie Ko, Taiwanese film director, producer, stuntman, singer and actor (d. 2003)
* February 23 — Kenny Bee, Hong Kong singer, musician and actor
* February 26 — Lin Ching-hsuan, Taiwanese essayist (d. 2019)

### April

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* April 3 — Shi Shengjie, xiangsheng comedian (d. 2018)
* April 4 — Chen Yi, Chinese violinist and composer of contemporary classical music
* April 14 — Eric Tsang, Hong Kong actor, film director, producer and television host
* April 21 — Terry Hu, Taiwanese actress, writer and translator

### May

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* May 12 — Zhang Chunxian, 9th Secretary of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Regional Committee of the Chinese Communist Party
* Gao Hongbin, official (d. 2024)

### June

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* June 15 — Xi Jinping, CCP General Secretary and 6th paramount leader of China

### July

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* July 8 — Zhou Long, Pulitzer-prize-winning Chinese American composer
* July 21 — Sylvia Chang, Taiwanese actress, singer director, screenwriter and producer
* July 31 — Pu Cunxin, actor

### August

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* August 9 — Nur Bekri, 10th Chairman of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
* August 11 — Qian Gang, non-fiction writer and journalist
* August 20 — Fong Fei-fei, Taiwanese singer, host and actress (d. 2012)
* August 21 — Lu Qi, actor
* Shohrat Zakir, 11th Chairman of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region

### September

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* September 16 — Chen Xi, 21st President of the Central Party School of the Chinese Communist Party
* September 26 — Bai Chunli, physical chemist, nanotechnology scientist and academic administrator

### October

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* October 1 — Han Sanping, film producer and distributor
* October 4 — Wu Jianping, computer scientist
* October 19 — Wang Yi, 11th & 13th Minister of Foreign Affairs of China
* October 26 — Yang Xiaodu, 1st Director of the National Supervisory Commission
* Wu Weiren, physicist

### November

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* November 6 — Guan Mucun, mezzo-soprano singer
* Yang Xiong, 14th Mayor of Shanghai (d. 2021)

### December

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* December 6 — Susanna Au-yeung, Hong Kong actress (d. 2017)
* December 7 — Tao Zeru, film and television actor
* December 28 — Zhao Kezhi, former State Councilor of China
* Yang Jing, 9th Chairman of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region

### Unknown dates

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* Jing Jing Luo, composer

## Deaths

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* June 20 — Huang Jinrong, chief detective who worked for the French Concession police force in Shanghai (b. 1868)
* July 8 — Du Xinwu, martial artist (b. 1869)
* July 10 — Wu Qiwei, military commander (b. 1891)
* September 17 — Wenxiu, consort of China's last emperor Puyi (b. 1909)
* September 26 — Xu Beihong, painter (b. 1895)
* October 30 — Wu Zhihui, linguist and philosopher (b. 1865)
* November 19 — Wu Tiecheng, nationalist politician (b. 1888)

## See also

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* 1953 in Chinese film

## References

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