1955 in China

Events in the year 1955 in China. The country had an estimated population of 605 million people.

Incumbents

 * Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party: Mao Zedong
 * President of the People's Republic of China: Mao Zedong
 * Premier of the People's Republic of China: Zhou Enlai
 * Chairman of the National People's Congress: Liu Shaoqi
 * Vice President of the People's Republic of China: Zhu De
 * Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China: Chen Yun

Governors

 * Governor of Anhui Province: Zeng Xisheng then Huang Yan
 * Governor of Fujian Province: Ye Fei
 * Governor of Gansu Province: Deng Baoshan
 * Governor of Guangdong Province: Tao Zhu
 * Governor of Guizhou Province: Zhou Lin
 * Governor of Hebei Province: Lin Tie
 * Governor of Heilongjiang Province: Han Guang
 * Governor of Henan Province: Wu Zhipu
 * Governor of Hubei Province: Liu Zihou then Zhang Tixue
 * Governor of Hunan Province: Cheng Qian
 * Governor of Jiangsu Province: Tan Zhenlin then Hui Yuyu
 * Governor of Jiangxi Province: Shao Shiping
 * Governor of Jilin Province: Li Youwen
 * Governor of Liaoning Province: Du Zheheng
 * Governor of Qinghai Province: Sun Zuobin
 * Governor of Shaanxi Province: Zhao Shoushan
 * Governor of Shandong Province: Kang Sheng then Zhao Jianmin
 * Governor of Shanxi Province: Pei Lisheng
 * Governor of Sichuan Province: Li Jingquan then Li Dazhang
 * Governor of Yunnan Province: Chen Geng then Guo Yingqiu
 * Governor of Zhejiang Province: Tan Zhenlin then Sha Wenhan

Events

 * Continuing Kuomintang Islamic insurgency in China
 * January 18 to January 20 - Battle of Yijiangshan Islands
 * January 19 to February 26 - Battle of Dachen Archipelago
 * January 29 - Formosa Resolution of 1955
 * April 11 - Kashmir Princess
 * until May 1 - First Taiwan Strait Crisis
 * August - Start of the Sufan movement
 * September–November Bumper rice and wheat crop

Other events

 * July - Opening of Taizhou Luqiao Airport
 * Opening of the Chongqing Zoo
 * Completion of the Sino-Soviet Friendship Building, in Shanghai

Other establishments

 * Pingshi Prison
 * Shushan Prison
 * Sunan Shuofang International Airport

Education

 * Establishments:
 * Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
 * China Foreign Affairs University
 * Chongqing Communication Institute
 * Chongqing No.1 Middle School
 * Guangdong Institute of Education
 * Zhongyuan University of Technology

Sports

 * Establishment of Jilin FC

Births

 * January
 * Wang Jiasheng, former Political Commissar of the People's Liberation Army Rocket Force
 * January 1 — Yang Yumin, footballer
 * February 4 — He Lifeng, economist and politician
 * March 5 — Wang Yang, 9th Chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
 * April 27 — Jing Yidan, former host
 * July 3 — Li Keqiang, 7th Premier of China (d. 2023)
 * July 12 — Chen Quanguo, Member of the 19th Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party
 * September 8 — Fan Zhiqi, actor (d. 2010)
 * September 23 — Ma Shaohua, Hui actor
 * October 6 — Wang Huning, 10th Chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
 * November
 * Li Qiang, politician from Jiangsu province
 * November 22 — Ding Lieyun, management scientist and educator
 * December 5 — Cai Qi, First-ranked Secretary of the 20th Secretariat of the Chinese Communist Party
 * Unknown dates
 * Mai Cheng

Deaths

 * February 9 — Zhang Lan, 1st Chairman of the China Democratic League (b. 1872)
 * February 23 — Shi Dongshan, film director and screenwriter (b. 1902)
 * March 25 — Huang Binhong, literati painter and art historian (b. 1865)
 * August 29 — Hong Shen, playwright, film director and screenwriter (b. 1894)