1966 in China

Events from the year 1966 in China.

Incumbents

 * Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party — Mao Zedong
 * President of the People's Republic of China — Liu Shaoqi
 * 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
 * Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China — Lin Biao

Governors

 * Governor of Anhui Province — Huang Yan
 * Governor of Fujian Province — Wei Jinshui
 * Governor of Gansu Province — Deng Baoshan
 * Governor of Guangdong Province — Chen Yu
 * Governor of Guizhou Province — Li Li
 * Governor of Hebei Province — Liu Zihou
 * Governor of Heilongjiang Province — Li Fanwu
 * Governor of Henan Province — Wen Minsheng
 * Governor of Hubei Province — Zhang Tixue
 * Governor of Hunan Province — Cheng Qian
 * Governor of Jiangsu Province — Hui Yuyu
 * Governor of Jiangxi Province — Fang Zhichun
 * Governor of Jilin Province — Li Youwen
 * Governor of Liaoning Province — Huang Oudong
 * Governor of Qinghai Province — Wang Zhao
 * Governor of Shaanxi Province — Li Qiming (until April), Li Ruishan (starting April)
 * Governor of Shandong Province — Bai Rubing
 * Governor of Shanxi Province — Wang Qian
 * Governor of Sichuan Province — Li Dazhang
 * Governor of Yunnan Province — Zhou Xing
 * Governor of Zhejiang Province — Zhou Jianren

Events

 * 16 May Notification launches the Cultural Revolution
 * Beginning of the Red Guards movement
 * Third five-year plan

Births

 * January 25 — Gao Hongbo, football manager
 * March 16 — Deng Qingming, taikonaut
 * March 19 — Qin Gang, 12th Minister of Foreign Affairs
 * May 22 — Wang Xiaoshuai, film director, screenwriter and occasional actor
 * July 10 — Amy Yip, Hong Kong actress
 * September 17 — Liu Boming, fighter pilot
 * October 10 — Bai Ling, American actress and musician
 * October 11 — Zhai Zhigang, taikonaut
 * October 24 — Jing Haipeng, fighter pilot
 * December 11 — Leon Lai, actor, film director, businessman and Cantopop singer

Deaths

 * May 18 — Deng Tuo, poet, intellectual and journalist (b. 1912)
 * May 23
 * Demchugdongrub, Mongol prince (b. 1902)
 * Tian Jiaying, personal secretary of Mao Zedong (b. 1922)
 * July 12 — Liangqing, monk (b. 1895)
 * August 24
 * Lao She, writer (b. 1899)
 * Li Da, Chinese Marxist philosopher (b. 1890)
 * August 31 — Huang Shaohong, general (b. 1895)
 * September 3
 * Fu Lei, translator and critic (b. 1908)
 * Chen Mengjia, scholar, poet, paleographer and archaeologist (b. 1911)
 * September 10 — Yan Huizhu, opera singer (b. 1919)
 * September 19 — Wan Xiaotang, politician (b. 1916)
 * October 1 — Zhao Chengshou, nationalist general (b. 1891)
 * October 11 — Sun Zhiyuan, politician (b. 1911)
 * December 2 — Bai Chongxi, nationalist general (b. 1893)
 * December 12 — Wu Yuzhang, politician and educator (b. 1878)
 * December 26 — Zhou Xiaozhou, politician and communist revolutionary (b. 1912)