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1978
Events in the year 1978 in the People's Republic of China.
Incumbents
Paramount leader - Hua Guofeng → Deng Xiaoping
Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party – Hua Guofeng
Premier of China – Hua Guofeng
Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress – Ye Jianying
Chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference – Deng Xiaoping
Governors
Governor of Anhui Province – Song Peizhang then Wan Li
Governor of Fujian Province – Liao Zhigao
Governor of Gansu Province – Song Ping
Governor of Guangdong Province – Wei Guoqing
Governor of Guizhou Province – Ma Li
Governor of Hebei Province – Liu Zihou
Governor of Heilongjiang Province – Yang Yichen
Governor of Henan Province – Liu Jianxun then Duan Junyi
Governor of Hubei Province – Zhao Xinchu then Chen Pixian
Governor of Hunan Province – Mao Zhiyong
Governor of Jiangsu Province – Xu Jiatun
Governor of Jiangxi Province – Jiang Weiqing
Governor of Jilin Province – Wang Enmao
Governor of Liaoning Province – Zeng Shaoshan (until September), Ren Zhongyi (starting September)
Governor of Qinghai Province – Tan Qilong
Governor of Shaanxi Province – Wang Renzhong (until December), Wang Renzhong (starting December)
Governor of Shandong Province – Bai Rubing
Governor of Shanxi Province – Wang Qian
Governor of Sichuan Province – Zhao Ziyang
Governor of Yunnan Province – An Pingsheng
Governor of Zhejiang Province – Tie Ying
Events
The PRC passed its 1978 constitution.Leese Daniel Maoism at the Grassroots: Everyday Life in China's Era of High Socialism Harvard University Press 2015 9780674287204 Brown Jeremy Reversing Political Verdicts in Post-Mao China: The Case of Beijing's Fengtai District Johnson Matthew D.107
December
December 18 to 22 — 3rd Plenary Session of the 11th Central Committee of the Communist Party was held. The conference marked the beginning of the "Reform and Opening Up" policy.Chuanliang Shen 2012-06-01 The History of Chinese Communist Party (1949–1978), by the Party History Research Center of the CPC Central Committee https://doi.org/10.1080/17535654.2012.670984 Journal of Modern Chinese History 6 1 111–113 10.1080/17535654.2012.670984 1753-5654 subscription
Undated
SIUI (Shantou Institute of Ultrasonic Instruments Co., Ltd) – ultrasound manufacturer is founded.http://www.newsmaker.com.au/news/14663.html Advances to Ultramedix's ultrasound lineup for 2012=2012-02-04 Newsmaker.com.au 2013-09-06 dead https://archive.today/20130704031136/http://www.newsmaker.com.au/news/14663.html 2013-07-04
Deaths
January 17 — Wu Mi, one of the founders of Chinese comparative literature, critic, redologist, educator and poet (b. 1894)
February 2 — Tang Chun-i, philosopher (b. 1909)
February 3 — Jiang Lifu, mathematician and educator (b. 1890)
March 27 — Li Jinxi, linguist and educator (b. 1890)
April 20 — Lo Hsiang-lin, one of the most renowned researchers in Hakka language and culture (b. 1906)
April 25 — Peng Shaohui, general of the People's Liberation Army (b. 1906)
May 15
Shang Zhen, general of the National Revolutionary Army (b. 1888)
Ouyang Qin, politician (b. 1900)
June 12 — Guo Moruo, author, poet, historian, archaeologist, and government official (b. 1892)
June 30 — Yuan Muzhi, actor and director (b. 1909)
August 3 — Luo Ruiqing, politician, army officer and general of the People's Liberation Army (b. 1906)
December 1 — Lu Kanru, scholar of classical Chinese literature (b. 1903)
See also
1978 in Chinese film
References
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