1930 in China

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Events from the year 1930 in China.

Incumbents

• Chairman of the Nationalist government: Chiang Kai-shek
• Premier:
  • until 22 September: Tan Yankai
  • 25 September – 4 December: T.V. Soong
  • starting 4 December: Chiang Kai-shek
• Vice Premier: Feng Yuxiang until 11 October, T.V. Soong

Events

• 29 January – 24 March — Encirclement Campaign against Hunan–Jiangxi Soviet
• 2 March — The League of the Left-Wing Writers was established in Shanghai, at the instigation of the Chinese Communist Party and the influence of the celebrated author Lu Xun.
• May – 4 November — Central Plains War
• 6 May — China signed tariff treaties with Japan. The Republic of China government obtained itself right of tariff autonomy. Some Japanese goods do not need to pay tariffs.
• 27 October – 1 December — Musha Incident in Taiwan.
• December — Futian incident

Births

January

• 1 January — Sihung Lung, Taiwanese actor of Manchu descent (d. 2002)
• 19 January — Li Daozeng, architect (d. 2020)
• 22 January — Yu Ying-shih, Chinese-born American historian and sinologist (d. 2021)

March

• 2 March — Liu Siqi, wife of Mao Anying, eldest son of Mao Zedong (d. 2022)
• 26 March — Song Wencong, aerospace engineer and aircraft designer (d. 2016)

April

• 6 April — Qiu Dahong, engineer (d. 2025)
• 15 April — Zhu Xu, actor (d. 2018)
• Jiang Chunyun, Vice Premier of China (d. 2021)
• Liang Jun, first female tractor driver in Communist China who later became a folk hero and model worker (d. 2020)

May

• 9 May — Yan Su, playwright and lyricist (d. 2016)
• 21 May — Wang Yingluo, academic in management science and management engineering (d. 2023)
• 24 May — Han Zhenxiang, electrical engineer (d. 2024)

June

• 10 June — Chen Xitong, 8th Secretary of the Beijing Municipal Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (d. 2013)
• 13 June — Li Zehou, philosopher (d. 2021)

July

• 1 July — Hu Ping, 10th Governor of Fujian (d. 2020)
• 3 July — Ku Feng, Hong Kong actor
• 8 July — Lu Shibi, orthopedist (d. 2020)

September

• 3 September — Cho-yun Hsu, Taiwanese historian
• 7 September — Yuan Longping, agronomist and inventor (d. 2021)

October

• 14 October — Pan Junhua, applied optics engineer (d. 2023)
• 26 October — Sun Yueh, Taiwanese actor (d. 2018)
• Zhu Senlin, 13th Governor of Guangdong

November

• 20 November — Bai Hua, novelist, playwright and poet (d. 2019)
• 22 November — Li Yining, economist (d. 2023)

December

• 30 December — Tu Youyou, pharmaceutical chemist

Dates unknown

• • Hua Sanchuan, painter and illustrator (d. 2004)
  • Liu Hongru, government official (d. 2025)
  • Wan Shaofen, politician (d. 2026)
  • Wu Yanxia, tai chi teacher (d. 2001)

Deaths

• 24 February
  • Wang Zuo, former bandit chieftain who operated in the Jinggang Mountains of Jiangxi (b. 1898)
  • Yuan Wencai, bandit chieftain who operated in the Jinggang Mountains of Jiangxi (b. 1898)
• 1 June — Wang Shizhen, 8th Premier of the Republic of China (b. 1861)
• 21 July — Wang Zhixiang, politician (b. 1858)
• 27 July — Chen Delin, actor and singer of both Peking and Kun opera (b. 1862)
• 17 August — Joseph Charignon, Franco-Chinese engineer (b. 1872)
• 22 September — Tan Yankai, 1st Chairman of the National Government of China (b. 1880)
• 14 September — Lin Baoyi, admiral in the Republic of China Navy (b. 1864)
• 14 November — Yang Kaihui, second wife of Mao Zedong (b. 1901)

See also

• List of Chinese films of the 1930s