1960 in China explained
Events in the year 1960 in the People's Republic of China.
Incumbents
Governors
Events
February
- February 11 — Twelve Indian soldiers die in clashes with Red Chinese troops along their small common border.
May
- May 9 — According to Chinese government official confirmed report, a Datong Laobaidong Coal mine gas explosion in Shanxi Province, 220 workers were rescued, 684 workers were perished.
June
Births
- February
- March
- April 2 — Chen Siqing, banker
- April 3
- April 18 — Ni Dahong, actor
- April 25 — Zhou Qiang, politician
- April 28 — Edward Yau, Hong Kong politician
- June 4 — Ge Ping, voice and television actor
- September 5 — Dayo Wong, Hong Kong actor and stand-up comedian
- September 29 — Chen Min'er, politician
- November 5 — Teresa Mo, Hong Kong actress
- November 18 — Priscilla Leung, Hong Kong Legislative Councillor
- November 28 — Ken Choi, Hong Kong singer and actor
- December
Deaths
- January 17 — Wei Lihuang, Nationalist general (b. 1897)
- January 21 — Wu Lien-teh, Malayan physician known for work on the Manchurian plague of 1910-1911 (b. 1879)
- February 8 — Lin Hu, warlord of Old Guangxi clique (b. 1887)
- February 22 — Simon Zhu Kaimin, Bishop of Jiangsu (b. 1868)
- May 23 — Yan Xishan, warlord (b. 1883)
- May 29 — Lin Boqu, politician and poet (b. 1886)
- July 1 — He Bingyan, colonel general (b. 1913)
- October 21 — Ma Hongbin, Muslim warlord of the Ma clique (b. 1884)
- November 27 — Kwan Sung-sing, construction engineer, architect and entrepreneur (b. 1892)
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