1964 in China
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Events from the year 1964 in China.
Incumbents
- Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party – Mao Zedong
- President of the People's Republic of China – Liu Shaoqi
- Premier of the People's Republic of China – Zhou Enlai
- Chairman of the National People's Congress – Zhu De
- Vice President of the People's Republic of China – Soong Ching-ling and Dong Biwu
- Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China – Chen Yun (until December 21), Lin Biao (starting December 21)
Governors
- Governor of Anhui Province – Huang Yan
- Governor of Fujian Province – Wei Jinshui
- Governor of Gansu Province – Deng Baoshan
- Governor of Guangdong Province – Chen Yu
- Governor of Guizhou Province – Zhou Lin (politician)
- Governor of Hebei Province – Liu Zihou
- Governor of Heilongjiang Province – Li Fanwu
- Governor of Henan Province – Wen Minsheng
- 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 – Huang Oudong
- Governor of Qinghai Province – Wang Zhao
- Governor of Shaanxi Province – Li Qiming
- Governor of Shandong Province – Bai Rubing
- Governor of Shanxi Province – Wei Heng
- Governor of Sichuan Province – Li Dazhang
- Governor of Yunnan Province – Ding Yichuan
- Governor of Zhejiang Province – Zhou Jianren
Events
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- Beginning in 1964, China through the Third Front construction built a self-sufficient industrial base in its hinterlands as a strategic reserve in the event of war with the Soviet Union or the United States.[1]: 1
- In 1964, the Chinese Academy of Sciences debuted China's first self-developed large digital computer, the 119.[2]: 101 The 119 was a core technology in facilitating China's first successful nuclear weapon test (Project 596), also in 1964.[2]: 101
January
- January 25 – France and China establish diplomatic relations.[3]
October
- October 16 – China explodes an atomic bomb in Sinkiang.
Births
- April 26 – Zhu Jun, actor and host
- June 23 – Lou Yun, gymnast
- August 3 – Ye Qiaobo, speed skater
- October 30 – Ma Xiangjun, archer[4]
- Jiang Yu, politician
- Gao Chengyong, serial killer and rapist (d. 2019)
Deaths
- February 5 — Gan Siqi, general (b. 1904)
- March 30 — Deng Xihou, prominent warlord of Sichuan (b. 1889)
- April 22 — Zhou Baozhong, military commander (b. 1902)
- May 1 — Tang Yongtong, educator, philosopher and scholar (b. 1893)
- May 14 — Jiao Yulu, politician (b. 1922)
- July 6 — Zeng Junchen, businessman and opium kingpin from Sichuan (b. 1888)
- July 19 — Si Xingjian, paleobotanist and stratigrapher (b. 1901)
- September 22 — Yu Xuezhong, Nationalist general and pro-Communist politician (b. 1890)
- November 10 — Yu Youren, educator, scholar, calligrapher and politician (b. 1879)
References
- ↑ Meyskens, Covell F. (2020). Mao's Third Front: The Militarization of Cold War China. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781108784788. ISBN 978-1-108-78478-8. OCLC 1145096137. S2CID 218936313.
- 1 2 Mullaney, Thomas S. (2024). The Chinese Computer: a Global History of the Information Age. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. ISBN 9780262047517.
- ↑ Milestones: 1964, People's Daily website
- ↑ "Xiangjun MA - Olympic Archery | People's Republic of China". International Olympic Committee. 17 June 2016. Retrieved 23 April 2019.
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