Events in the year 1957 in China. The country had an estimated population of 635 million people.[1]
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Incumbents edit
- 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 edit
- 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 edit
- 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 edit
- 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
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See also edit
References edit
- ^ Fernand Braudel (1989). Gramática das Civilizações (in Portuguese). teorema. p. 202.
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