1942 in China

Events in the year 1942 in China.

Incumbents

 * President: Lin Sen
 * Premier: Chiang Kai-shek
 * Vice Premier: Kung Hsiang-hsi

Events

 * Beginning of the Chinese famine of 1942-43
 * April 26 - a gas and coal dust explosion in the Benxihu Colliery killed 1,549 miners.
 * mid May-early September - Zhejiang-Jiangxi Campaign
 * A cholera epidemic in Yunnan province kills around 200 people

Births

 * December 21 - Hu Jintao
 * September 15 — Wen Jiabao
 * Chen Jialin
 * Huang Baosheng
 * Wang Zhizhen
 * He Xiangjian
 * Chen Guidi
 * Huang Zhiquan

Deaths

 * February 12 — Zhao Shangzhi, military commander (b. 1908)
 * May 26 — Dai Anlan, commander of the 200th Division of the National Revolutionary Army (b. 1904)
 * May 27 — Chen Duxiu, 1st General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (b. 1879)
 * June 2 — Zuo Quan, senior staff officer of the Eighth Route Army (b. 1905)