1968 in China

Events from the year 1968 in China.

← 1967 1966 1965 1964 1963 1968 in China → 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973
Decades:	1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s
See also:	Other events of 1968 History of China  • Timeline  • Years

Incumbents

• Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party — Mao Zedong
• President of the People's Republic of China — vacant
• Premier of the People's Republic of China — Zhou Enlai
• Chairman of the National People's Congress — Zhu De
• Vice President of the People's Republic of China — Soong Ching-ling and Dong Biwu
• First Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China — Lin Biao

Governors

• Governor of Anhui Province – Li Desheng
• Governor of Fujian Province – Han Xianchu
• Governor of Gansu Province – Xian Henghan
• Governor of Guangdong Province – Huang Yongsheng
• Governor of Guizhou Province – Ma Li
• Governor of Hebei Province – Li Xuefeng
• Governor of Heilongjiang Province – Pan Fusheng
• Governor of Henan Province – Liu Jianxun
• Governor of Hubei Province – Zhang Tixue (until February), Zeng Siyu (from February onwards)
• Governor of Hunan Province – Li Yuan
• Governor of Jiangsu Province – Xu Shiyou
• Governor of Jiangxi Province – Cheng Shiqing
• Governor of Jilin Province – Wang Huaixiang
• Governor of Liaoning Province – Chen Xilian
• Governor of Qinghai Province – Liu Xianquan
• Governor of Shaanxi Province – Li Qiming (until April), Li Ruishan (from April onwards)
• Governor of Shandong Province – Wang Xiaoyu
• Governor of Shanxi Province – Liu Geping
• Governor of Sichuan Province – Zhang Guohua
• Governor of Yunnan Province – Li Chengfang (until August 10), Tan Furen (from August 10 onwards)
• Governor of Zhejiang Province – Nan Ping

Events

• Cleansing the Class Ranks
• Shaoyang County Massacre
• Mango cult
• Opening of the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge
• Ruijin Massacre

Births

• August 20 — Bai Yansong, CCTV news commentator, anchor and journalist

Deaths

• March 3 — Xu Guangping, writer, politician and social activist (b. 1898)
• April 5 — Cheng Qian, army officer and politician (b. 1882)
• April 7 — Chen Changjie, Nationalist general (b. 1892)
• April 8 — Yan Fengying, Huangmei opera artist (b. 1930)
• April 16 — Fu Chi Fong, international table tennis player (b. 1923)
• April 25 — Cai Tingkai, general (b. 1892)
• May 8 — Liu Peishan, lieutenant general in the People's Liberation Army (b. 1912)
• June 8 — Yao Tongbin, scientist and missile engineer (b. 1922)
• June 20 — Rong Guotuan, table tennis player (b. 1937)
• July 3 — Wang Yaowu, Nationalist general (b. 1904)
• July 15 — Cai Chusheng, film director (b. 1906)
• July 16 — Hu Xiansu, botanist, scholar, literary critic and educator (b. 1894)
• August 3 — Yang Shuo, lyricist and essayist (b. 1913)
• October 15 — Sun Weishi, first female director of modern spoken drama (huaju) (b. 1920)
• October 26 — Zhao Jiuzhang, meteorologist and physicist (b. 1907)
• November 1 — Geshe Sherab Gyatso, ethnic Tibetan religious teacher and politician (b. 1884)
• November 2 — Li Guangtian, essayist (b. 1906)
• November 23 — Shangguan Yunzhu, actress (b. 1920)
• November 27 — Deng Baoshan, 2nd Governor of Gansu (b. 1894)
• November 28 — Xu Teli, politician (b. 1877)
• December 2 — Liao Yaoxiang, Nationalist general (b. 1906)
• December 5 — Guo Yonghuai, aerospace engineer and aerodynamics scientist (b. 1909)
• December 10 — Tian Han, drama activist, playwright, translator and poet (b. 1898)
• December 11 — Xiao Guangyan, petrochemist (b. 1920)
• December 18 — Jian Bozan, scholar and Marxist historian (b. 1898)
• December 26 — Xun Huisheng, one of Peking Opera's "Four Great Dan" (b. 1900)
• December 27 — Betty Loh Ti, Hong Kong actress (b. 1937)