1953 in China

Events in the year 1953 in the People's Republic of China.

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

← 1952 1951 1950 1949 1948 1953 in China → 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958
Decades:	1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s
See also:	Other events of 1953 History of China  • Timeline  • Years

Incumbents

• Chairman of the Communist Party of China – 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

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

• July 8 - Zhou Long, Pulitzer-prize-winning Chinese American composer
• April 4 - Chen Yi, Chinese violinist and composer of contemporary classical music
• Jing Jing Luo, a Chinese composer
• June 15 - Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Communist Party (paramount leader) and 7th President of China

Deaths

• September 17 – Wenxiu, consort of China's last emperor Puyi (born 1909).
• September 26 – Xu Beihong, Chinese painter (born 1895)

See also

• 1953 in Chinese film

References