Draft:1968 in China

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See also:	Other events of 1968; History of China • Timeline • Years

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Events from the year 1968 in China.

Incumbents

Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party — Mao Zedong
President of the People's Republic of China — vacant
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
First Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China — Lin Biao

Governors

Governor of Anhui Province – Li Desheng
Governor of Fujian Province – Han Xianchu
Governor of Gansu Province – Xian Henghan
Governor of Guangdong Province – Huang Yongsheng
Governor of Guizhou Province – Ma Li
Governor of Hebei Province – Li Xuefeng
Governor of Heilongjiang Province – Pan Fusheng
Governor of Henan Province – Liu Jianxun
Governor of Hubei Province – Zhang Tixue (until February), Zeng Siyu (from February onwards)
Governor of Hunan Province – Li Yuan
Governor of Jiangsu Province – Xu Shiyou
Governor of Jiangxi Province – Cheng Shiqing
Governor of Jilin Province – Wang Huaixiang
Governor of Liaoning Province – Chen Xilian
Governor of Qinghai Province – Liu Xianquan
Governor of Shaanxi Province – Li Qiming (until April), Li Ruishan (from April onwards)
Governor of Shandong Province – Wang Xiaoyu
Governor of Shanxi Province – Liu Geping
Governor of Sichuan Province – Zhang Guohua
Governor of Yunnan Province – Li Chengfang (until August 10), Tan Furen (from August 10 onwards)
Governor of Zhejiang Province – Nan Ping

Events

Cleansing the Class Ranks
Shaoyang County Massacre
Mango cult
Opening of the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge
Ruijin Massacre

Births

August 20 — Bai Yansong, CCTV news commentator, anchor and journalist

Deaths

March 3 — Xu Guangping, writer, politician and social activist (b. 1898)
April 5 — Cheng Qian, army officer and politician (b. 1882)
April 7 — Chen Changjie, Nationalist general (b. 1892)
April 8 — Yan Fengying, Huangmei opera artist (b. 1930)
April 16 — Fu Chi Fong, international table tennis player (b. 1923)
April 25 — Cai Tingkai, general (b. 1892)
May 8 — Liu Peishan, lieutenant general in the People's Liberation Army (b. 1912)
June 8 — Yao Tongbin, scientist and missile engineer (b. 1922)
June 20 — Rong Guotuan, table tennis player (b. 1937)
July 3 — Wang Yaowu, Nationalist general (b. 1904)
July 15 — Cai Chusheng, film director (b. 1906)
July 16 — Hu Xiansu, botanist, scholar, literary critic and educator (b. 1894)
August 3 — Yang Shuo, lyricist and essayist (b. 1913)
October 15 — Sun Weishi, first female director of modern spoken drama (huaju) (b. 1920)
October 26 — Zhao Jiuzhang, meteorologist and physicist (b. 1907)
November 1 — Geshe Sherab Gyatso, ethnic Tibetan religious teacher and politician (b. 1884)
November 2 — Li Guangtian, essayist (b. 1906)
November 23 — Shangguan Yunzhu, actress (b. 1920)
November 27 — Deng Baoshan, 2nd Governor of Gansu (b. 1894)
November 28 — Xu Teli, politician (b. 1877)
December 2 — Liao Yaoxiang, Nationalist general (b. 1906)
December 5 — Guo Yonghuai, aerospace engineer and aerodynamics scientist (b. 1909)
December 10 — Tian Han, drama activist, playwright, translator and poet (b. 1898)
December 11 — Xiao Guangyan, petrochemist (b. 1920)
December 18 — Jian Bozan, scholar and Marxist historian (b. 1898)
December 26 — Xun Huisheng, one of Peking Opera's "Four Great Dan" (b. 1900)
December 27 — Betty Loh Ti, Hong Kong actress (b. 1937)

References