1979 in China

Events

January 1 — The United States broke diplomatic relations with Republic of China, and established diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China.
January - The One Child Policy is announced and implemented (est.)^[1]

February 17 – The People's Republic of China invades northern Vietnam, launching the Sino-Vietnamese War.

March 5 – Zhuhai County was upgraded to Zhuhai City.
March 14 – In China, a Hawker Siddeley Trident crashes into a factory near Beijing, killing at least 260.

September 27 – Stars Art Exhibition, the first independent art exhibition, takes place in Beihai Park, Beijing

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Births

Deaths

January 15 — Yang Zhongjian, vertebrate paleontologist (b. 1897)
February 7
- Su Zhenhua, general and politician (b. 1912)
- Cui Wei, film director and actor (b. 1912)
March 7 — Lei Chen, Taiwanese politician and dissident (b. 1897)
March 12 — Zheng Xiaocang, writer, translator, and educator (b. 1892)
March 30 — Tong Dizhou, embryologist (b. 1902)
May 27 — Yao Zhe, lieutenant general of the People's Liberation Army (b. 1906)
June 30 — Zhou Shidi, general of the People's Liberation Army (b. 1900)
July 1 — Huang Minlon, organic chemist and pharmaceutical scientist (b. 1898)
July 4 — Lee Wai Tong, Hong Kong and Chinese international association football player, head coach and former Vice President of FIFA (b. 1905)
August 1 — Li Ji, influential archaeologist (b. 1896)
August 14 — Wang Yun-wu, scholar of history and political science (b. 1888)
August 27 — Shi Jianqiao, assassin of the Warlord Sun Chuanfang (b. 1905)
September 25 — Zhou Libo, novelist and translator (b. 1908)
October 13 — Chang Kia-ngau, banker, politician and scholar (b. 1889)
December 3 — Zhang Guotao, revolutionary, founding member of the Chinese Communist Party and a rival to Mao Zedong (b. 1897)

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Incumbents