1957 in China

Events in the year 1957 in China. The country had an estimated population of 635 million people.[1]

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Decades:
  • 1930s
  • 1940s
  • 1950s
  • 1960s
  • 1970s
See also:Other events of 1957
History of China  • Timeline  • Years

Incumbents
  • 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
  • Governor of Anhui Province: Huang Yan
  • Governor of Fujian Province: Ye Fei
  • Governor of Gansu Province: Deng Baoshan
  • Governor of Guangdong Province: Tao Zhu (until August), Chen Yu (starting August)
  • Governor of Guizhou Province: Zhou Lin
  • Governor of Hebei Province: Lin Tie
  • Governor of Heilongjiang Province: Ouyang Qin
  • Governor of Henan Province: Wu Zhipu
  • Governor of Hubei Province: Zhang Tixue
  • Governor of Hunan Province: Cheng Qian
  • Governor of Jiangsu Province: 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: Zhao Jianmin
  • Governor of Shanxi Province: Wang Shiying
  • Governor of Sichuan Province: Li Dazhang
  • Governor of Yunnan Province: Guo Yingqiu
  • Governor of Zhejiang Province: Sha Wenhan (until November), Huo Shilian (starting November)

Events
  • End of the Hundred Flowers Campaign
  • Start of the Anti-Rightist Movement
  • Establishment of the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology
  • Continuing Kuomintang Islamic insurgency in China
  • Promotion of the Five Goods Movement
  • The Asian Flu killed around 1-2 million pe ple in China and Hong Kong.
  • Official Soviet visit by Kliment Voroshilov Photo of the two leaders

Other events
  • January 1 - Opening of Hangzhou Jianqiao Airport, in Jianggan District, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, to civil flights.
  • October 15 - Opening of the Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge, in Wuhan, Hubei
  • Establishments:
    • Gaoming Prison, in Gaoming District, Foshan City, Guangdong
    • Henan Experimental Middle School, in Jinshui District, Zhengzhou, Henan
    • Lujiang Prison, in Chaohu City, Anhui

See also
  • 1957 in Chinese film

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


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