1930 in China

Events from the year 1930 in China.

← 1929 1928 1927 1926 1925 1930 in China → 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935
Decades:	1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s
See also:	Other events of 1930 History of China  • Timeline  • Years

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

Dates unknown

• • Hua Sanchuan, painter and illustrator (d. 2004)
  • Liu Hongru, government official d. 2025)
  • 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]