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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Incumbents
- Chairman of the Communist Party of China: 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
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 people in China and Hong Kong.
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:
See also
References
- Fernand Braudel (1989). Gramática das Civilizações (in Portuguese). teorema. p. 202.
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