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

## Incumbents

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* 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

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* Governor of Anhui Province: Zeng Xisheng then Huang Yan
* Governor of Fujian Province: Ye Fei
* Governor of Gansu Province: Deng Baoshan
* Governor of Guangdong Province: Tao Zhu
* Governor of Guizhou Province: Zhou Lin
* Governor of Hebei Province: Lin Tie
* Governor of Heilongjiang Province: Han Guang
* Governor of Henan Province: Wu Zhipu
* Governor of Hubei Province: Liu Zihou then Zhang Tixue
* Governor of Hunan Province: Cheng Qian
* Governor of Jiangsu Province: Tan Zhenlin then Hui Yuyu
* Governor of Jiangxi Province: Shao Shiping
* Governor of Jilin Province: Li Youwen
* Governor of Liaoning Province: Du Zheheng
* Governor of Qinghai Province: Sun Zuobin
* Governor of Shaanxi Province: Zhao Shoushan
* Governor of Shandong Province: Kang Sheng then Zhao Jianmin
* Governor of Shanxi Province: Pei Lisheng
* Governor of Sichuan Province: Li Jingquan then Li Dazhang
* Governor of Yunnan Province: Chen Geng then Guo Yingqiu
* Governor of Zhejiang Province: Tan Zhenlin then Sha Wenhan

## Events

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* 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

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

#### Other establishments

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* Pingshi Prison
* Shushan Prison
* Sunan Shuofang International Airport

## Education

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* Establishments:
* Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
* China Foreign Affairs University
* Chongqing Communication Institute
* Chongqing No.1 Middle School
* Guangdong Institute of Education
* Zhongyuan University of Technology

## Sports

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* Establishment of Jilin FC

## Births

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### January

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* 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

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* 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

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* 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

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

### May

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* 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

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

### July

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* 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

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

### September

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* 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

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* 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

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* 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

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* 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

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* Mai Cheng, Norwegian painter

## Deaths

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* 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)

## See also

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* 1955 in Chinese film

## References

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

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