1930 in China
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Events from the year 1930 in China.
Incumbents
- Chairman of the Nationalist government: Chiang Kai-shek
- Premier:
- until September 22: Tan Yankai
- September 25 – December 4: T.V. Soong
- starting December 4: Chiang Kai-shek
- Vice Premier: Feng Yuxiang until October 11, T.V. Soong
Events
- January 29 – March 24 — Encirclement Campaign against Hunan–Jiangxi Soviet
- March 2 — The League of the Left-Wing Writers was established in Shanghai, at the instigation of the Chinese Communist Party and the influence of the celebrated author Lu Xun.
- May – November 4 — Central Plains War
- May 6 — China signed tariff treaties with Japan. The Republic of China government obtained itself right of tariff autonomy. Some Japanese goods do not need to pay tariffs.
- October 27 – December 1 — Musha Incident in Taiwan.
- December — Futian incident
Births
January
- January 1 — Sihung Lung, Taiwanese actor of Manchu descent (d. 2002)
- January 19 — Li Daozeng, architect (d. 2020)
- January 22 — Yu Ying-shih, Chinese-born American historian and sinologist (d. 2021)
March
- March 2 — Liu Siqi, wife of Mao Anying, eldest son of Mao Zedong (d. 2022)
- March 26 — Song Wencong, aerospace engineer and aircraft designer (d. 2016)
April
- April 6 — Qiu Dahong, engineer (d. 2025)
- April 15 — Zhu Xu, actor (d. 2018)
- Jiang Chunyun, Vice Premier of China (d. 2021)
- Liang Jun, first female tractor driver in Communist China who later became a folk hero and model worker (d. 2020)
May
- May 9 — Yan Su, playwright and lyricist (d. 2016)
- May 21 — Wang Yingluo, academic in management science and management engineering (d. 2023)
- May 24 — Han Zhenxiang, electrical engineer (d. 2024)
June
- June 10 — Chen Xitong, 8th Secretary of the Beijing Municipal Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (d. 2013)
- June 13 — Li Zehou, philosopher (d. 2021)
July
- July 1 — Hu Ping, 10th Governor of Fujian (d. 2020)
- July 3 — Ku Feng, Hong Kong actor
- July 8 — Lu Shibi, orthopedist (d. 2020)
September
- September 3 — Cho-yun Hsu, Taiwanese historian
- September 7 — Yuan Longping, agronomist and inventor (d. 2021)
October
- October 14 — Pan Junhua, applied optics engineer (d. 2023)
- October 26 — Sun Yueh, Taiwanese actor (d. 2018)
- Zhu Senlin, 13th Governor of Guangdong
November
- November 20 — Bai Hua, novelist, playwright and poet (d. 2019)
- November 22 — Li Yining, economist (d. 2023)
December
- December 30 — Tu Youyou, pharmaceutical chemist
- December 31 — Guo Lanying, operatic soprano
Dates unknown
- Hua Sanchuan, painter and illustrator (d. 2004)
- Wu Yanxia, tai chi teacher (d. 2001)
Deaths
- February 24
- Wang Zuo, former bandit chieftain who operated in the Jinggang Mountains of Jiangxi (b. 1898)
- Yuan Wencai, bandit chieftain who operated in the Jinggang Mountains of Jiangxi (b. 1898)
- June 1 — Wang Shizhen, 8th Premier of the Republic of China (b. 1861)
- July 21 — Wang Zhixiang, politician (b. 1858)
- July 27 — Chen Delin, actor and singer of both Peking and Kun opera (b. 1862)
- August 17 — Joseph Charignon, Franco-Chinese engineer (b. 1872)
- September 22 — Tan Yankai, 1st Chairman of the National Government of China (b. 1880)
- September 14 — Lin Baoyi, admiral in the Republic of China Navy (b. 1864)
- November 14 — Yang Kaihui, second wife of Mao Zedong (b. 1901)[1]
