1971 in China
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Events from the year 1971 in China.
Incumbents
- Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party – Mao Zedong
- President of China – vacant
- Premier of China – Zhou Enlai
- Chairman of the National People's Congress – Zhu De
- Vice President of China – Soong Ching-ling and Dong Biwu
- Vice Premier of China – Lin Biao (until 13 September), Deng Xiaoping (starting 13 September)
Governors
- Governor of Anhui Province – Li Desheng
- Governor of Fujian Province – Han Xianchu
- Governor of Gansu Province – Song Ping
- Governor of Guangdong Province – Liu Xingyuan
- Governor of Guizhou Province – Ma Li
- Governor of Hebei Province – Li Zaihe then Liu Zihou
- Governor of Heilongjiang Province – Pan Fusheng then Wang Jiadao
- Governor of Henan Province – Liu Jianxun
- Governor of Hubei Province – Zeng Siyu
- Governor of Hunan Province – Hua Guofeng
- Governor of Jiangsu Province – Xu Shiyou
- Governor of Jiangxi Province – Cheng Shiqing then She Jide
- Governor of Jilin Province – Wang Huaixiang
- Governor of Liaoning Province – Chen Xilian
- Governor of Qinghai Province – Liu Xianquan
- Governor of Shaanxi Province – Li Ruishan
- Governor of Shandong Province – Yang Dezhi (starting unknown)
- Governor of Shanxi Province – Liu Geping then Xie Zhenhua
- Governor of Sichuan Province – Zhang Guohua
- Governor of Yunnan Province – Zhou Xing
- Governor of Zhejiang Province – Nan Ping
Events
March
- March 26 – Cameroon and the People's Republic of China established bilateral relations.[2]
May
- May 26 – Austria and the People's Republic of China establish diplomatic relations.
June
- June 10 – The U.S. ends its trade embargo of China.
September
- September 13 – The Chinese Communist military leader Lin Biao dies in a plane crash in Mongolia after what appeared to be a failed coup to oust Mao. After his death, he was officially condemned as a traitor.
October
- October 25 – The United Nations General Assembly admits the People's Republic of China and expels the Republic of China (Taiwan).
November
- November 23 – The People's Republic of China takes the Republic of China's seat on the United Nations Security Council (see China and the United Nations).
- Henry Kissinger secretly visits Beijing
Births
- January 26 – Li Ming, Chinese footballer and football executive
- April – Joseph Zhang Yinlin, priest and the bishop of Weihui
- June 22 – Dao Lang, Chinese musician
- October 29 – Ma Huateng, Chinese business magnate, founder of Tencent
- November 12 – Chen Guangcheng, Chinese civil rights activist
Deaths
- January 27 — Weng Wenhao, geologist and politician (b. 1889)
- April 25 — T.V. Soong, businessman, banker and politician (b. 1894)
- April 29 — Li Siguang, geologist and founder of China's geomechanics (b. 1889)
- June 15 — Xie Juezai, 3rd President of the Supreme People's Court (b. 1884)
- September 13 — Lin Biao Incident
- Lin Biao, 2nd Minister of National Defence and Vice Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party (b. 1907)[3]
- Ye Qun, politician and wife of Lin Biao (b. 1917)
- Lin Liguo, son of Lin Biao (b. 1945)
- October 27 — Zhang Jingwu, politician and lieutenant general of the People's Liberation Army (b. 1906)