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Events in the year1979 in thePeople's Republic of China.

• Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party –Hua Guofeng
• Premier of the People's Republic of China –Hua Guofeng
• Chairman of the National People's Congress –Ye Jianying
• Chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference –Deng Xiaoping
• Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China –Deng Xiaoping

• Governor of Anhui Province –Wan Li thenZhang Jingfu
• Governor of Fujian Province –Liao Zhigao thenMa Xingyuan
• Governor of Gansu Province –Song Ping thenLi Dengying
• Governor of Guangdong Province –Wei Guoqing thenXi Zhongxun
• Governor of Guizhou Province –Ma Li (until unknown)
• Governor of Hebei Province –Liu Zihou
• Governor of Heilongjiang Province –Yang Yichen thenChen Lei
• Governor of Henan Province –Duan Junyi thenLiu Jie
• Governor of Hubei Province –Chen Pixian thenHan Ningfu
• Governor of Hunan Province –Mao Zhiyong thenSun Guozhi
• Governor of Jiangsu Province –Xu Jiatun thenHui Yuyu
• Governor of Jiangxi Province –Jiang Weiqing thenBai Dongcai
• Governor of Jilin Province –Wang Enmao
• Governor of Liaoning Province – vacant
• Governor of Qinghai Province –Tan Qilong thenZhang Guosheng
• Governor of Shaanxi Province –Wang Renzhong thenYu Mingtao
• Governor of Shandong Province –Bai Rubing thenSu Yiran
• Governor of Shanxi Province –Wang Qian thenLuo Guibo
• Governor of Sichuan Province –Zhao Ziyang thenLu Dadong
• Governor of Yunnan Province –An Pingsheng thenLiu Minghui
• Governor of Zhejiang Province –Tie Ying thenLi Fengping

• January 1 — TheUnited States broke diplomatic relations with Republic of China, and establisheddiplomatic relations with thePeople's Republic of China.
• January - TheOne Child Policy is announced and implemented (est.)^[1]

• February 17 – ThePeople's Republic of China invades northernVietnam, launching theSino-Vietnamese War.

• March 5 – Zhuhai County was upgraded toZhuhai City.
• March 14 – InChina, aHawker Siddeley Trident crashes into a factory nearBeijing, killing at least 260.

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

• January 13 –Yang Wei, Badminton player
• February 9 –Zhang Ziyi, film actress
• February 17 –Xu Yunlong, footballer
• March 5 –Tang Gonghong, Chinese weightlifter
• March 12 –Liu Xuan, Gymnast
• March 14 –Gao Ling, badminton player
• May 15 –Li Yanfeng, discus thrower
• April 19 –Zhao Junzhe, footballer
• June 14 –Ma Ning, association football referee
• June 20 –Li Yi, footballer
• July 19 –Mo Huilan, gymnast
• August 15 –Tong Jian, pair skater
• August 27 –Tian Liang, diver
• September 18 –Bobo Chan, Musical artist
• October 5 –Gao Yuanyuan, actress and model
• October 7 –Tang Wei, actress
• December 10 –Yang Jianping, archer^[2]
• December 24 –Pang Qing, figure skater
• December 27 –Sa Dingding, folk singer and songwriter

• 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 thePeople's Liberation Army (b.1906)
• June 30 —Zhou Shidi, general of thePeople'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 ofFIFA (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 WarlordSun 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 theChinese Communist Party and a rival toMao Zedong (b.1897)

• 1979 in Chinese film

• 1979 in China
• 1979 by country
• 1979 in Asia
• 1970s in China
• Years of the 20th century in China

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