1957 in China

Events in the year 1957 in China. The country had an estimated population of 635 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: Huang Yan
 * Governor of Fujian Province: Ye Fei
 * Governor of Gansu Province: Deng Baoshan
 * Governor of Guangdong Province: Tao Zhu (until August), Chen Yu (starting August)
 * Governor of Guizhou Province: Zhou Lin
 * Governor of Hebei Province: Lin Tie
 * Governor of Heilongjiang Province: Ouyang Qin
 * Governor of Henan Province: Wu Zhipu
 * 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: Du Zheheng
 * Governor of Qinghai Province: Sun Zuobin
 * Governor of Shaanxi Province: Zhao Shoushan
 * Governor of Shandong Province: Zhao Jianmin
 * Governor of Shanxi Province: Wang Shiying
 * Governor of Sichuan Province: Li Dazhang
 * Governor of Yunnan Province: Guo Yingqiu
 * Governor of Zhejiang Province: Sha Wenhan (until November), Huo Shilian (starting November)

Events

 * End of the Hundred Flowers Campaign
 * Start of the Anti-Rightist Movement
 * Establishment of the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology
 * Continuing Kuomintang Islamic insurgency in China
 * Promotion of the Five Goods Movement
 * The Asian Flu killed around 1-2 million pe ple in China and Hong Kong.
 * Official Soviet visit by Kliment Voroshilov Photo of the two leaders

Other events

 * January 1 - Opening of Hangzhou Jianqiao Airport, in Jianggan District, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, to civil flights.
 * October 15 - Opening of the Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge, in Wuhan, Hubei
 * Establishments:
 * Gaoming Prison, in Gaoming District, Foshan City, Guangdong
 * Henan Experimental Middle School, in Jinshui District, Zhengzhou, Henan
 * Lujiang Prison, in Chaohu City, Anhui