1953 in China

Events in the year 1953 in China.

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

Incumbents

• 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

• 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

• July 15 – FAW Group (First Automobile Group) was founded.
• 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

January

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

June

• June 15 — Xi Jinping, 6th Paramount Leader of China

July

• 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

• 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

• September 16 — Chen Xi, 21st President of the Central Party School of the Chinese Communist Party

October

• 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

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

December

• 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

• Jing Jing Luo, composer

Deaths

• 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

• 1953 in Chinese film