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• Incumbents
• Governors
• Events
• Unknown date
• Births
• January
• February
• March
• April
• May
• June
• July
• August
• September
• October
• November
• December
• Dates unknown
• Deaths
• Dates unknown 2
• See also
• References

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← 1953 1952 1951 1950 1949 1954 in China → 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959
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See also:	Other events of 1954 History of China  • Timeline  • Years

Events in the year 1954 in China .

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 (starting September 27)
• Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China: Dong Biwu (until September 15), Chen Yun (starting September 15)

Events

• September 20 — the first meeting of the National People's Congress in Beijing unanimously approved the 1954 Constitution of the People's Republic of China, the first constitution in the PRC since the state's founding
• October 1 — The China Construction Bank was founded.

Births

Deaths

• January 3 — Yu Yan, physician and writer (b. 1879)
• April 2 — Liang Siyong, anthropologist and archaeologist (b. 1904)
• June 3 — Wang Yaoqing, actor and singer (b. 1881)
• June 29 — Tang Enbo, nationalist general (b. 1898)
• August 17 — Gao Gang, 1st Chairman of the State Planning Commission of the People's Republic of China (b. 1905)
• November 3 — Chen Jitang, nationalist military officer (b. 1890)

See also

• 1954 in Chinese film

References