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Events in the year 1959 in China. The country had an estimated population of 665 million people.^[1]

Incumbents

Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party: Mao Zedong
President of the People's Republic of China: Mao Zedong (until April 27), Liu Shaoqi (starting April 27)
Premier of the People's Republic of China: Zhou Enlai
Chairman of the National People's Congress: Liu Shaoqi (until April 27), Zhu De (starting April 27)
Vice President of the People's Republic of China: Zhu De (until April 27), Song Qingling & Dong Biwu (starting April 27)
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China: Chen Yun

Governors

Events

Continuing Great Leap Forward
Continuing Great Chinese Famine
April - First plenary session of the 2nd National People's Congress, Liu Shaoqi was elected the President of China.
March 10 - Start of the 1959 Tibetan uprising
July 2 - Start of the Lushan Conference
October 1 - 10th anniversary of the People's Republic of China
Visit of Nikita Khrushchev from the Soviet Union: Photo of welcoming delegation: [1]

Other events

October 1 - Opening of Changfeng Park, in Putuo District, Shanghai
Opening of People's Park, in Xining, Qinghai
Establishment of Chaohu Prison, in Chaohu, Anhui
Establishment of the Fourth Affiliated Hospital of XMU, in Urumqi, Xinjiang
Establishment of the National Ballet of China Symphony Orchestra
Establishment of the State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping

Education

Establishments

Anhui University of Chinese Medicine, in Hefei, Anhui
Anhui University of Finance and Economics, in Bengbu, Anhui
Beijing Institute of Textile Technology
Yunnan Arts University, in Kunming, Yunnan

Births

Deaths

See also

1959 in Chinese film

References

^ Fernand Braudel (1989). Gramática das Civilizações (in Portuguese). teorema. p. 202.

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