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Decades:	1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s
See also:	Other events of 1957 History of China  • Timeline  • Years

Events in the year 1957 in China . The country had an estimated population of 635 million people. ^[1]

Incumbents [ edit ]

• 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 [ edit ]

• 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 [ edit ]

• 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 [1]

Other events [ edit ]

• 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

See also [ edit ]

• 1957 in Chinese film

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