# 1958 in China

Events in the year 1958 in the People's Republic of China.

## Incumbents

* Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party: Mao Zedong
* President of the People's Republic of China: Mao Zedong
* Premier of the People's Republic of China: Zhou Enlai
* Chairman of the National People's Congress: Liu Shaoqi
* Vice President of the People's Republic of China: Zhu De
* Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China: Chen Yun

### Governors

* Governor of Anhui Province: Huang Yan
* Governor of Fujian Province: Ye Fei
* Governor of Gansu Province: Deng Baoshan
* Governor of Guangdong Province: Chen Yu
* Governor of Guizhou Province: Zhou Lin (politician)
* Governor of Hebei Province: Lin Tie then Liu Zihou
* Governor of Heilongjiang Province: Ouyang Qin then Li Fanwu
* Governor of Henan Province: Wu Zhipu
* Governor of Hubei Province: Zhang Tixue
* Governor of Hunan Province: Cheng Qian
* Governor of Jiangsu Province: Hui Yuyu
* Governor of Jiangxi Province: Shao Shiping
* Governor of Jilin Province: Li Youwen
* Governor of Liaoning Province: Du Zheheng then Yuan Renyuan
* Governor of Qinghai Province:
** until month unknown: Sun Zuobin
** month unknown: Sun Junyi
** starting month unknown: Yuan Renyuan
* Governor of Shaanxi Province: Zhao Shoushan
* Governor of Shandong Province: Zhao Jianmin then Tan Qilong
* Governor of Shanxi Province: Wang Shiying then Wei Heng
* Governor of Sichuan Province: Li Dazhang
* Governor of Yunnan Province: Guo Yingqiu (until November), Ding Yichuan (starting November)
* Governor of Zhejiang Province: Huo Shilian (until January), Zhou Jianren (starting January)

## Events

* February 11 – Marshal Chen Yi succeeds Premier Zhou Enlai as Chinese Minister of Foreign affairs.
* May 23 – Chairman Mao Zedong started his "Great Leap Forward" movement in the People's Republic of China.
* July 31 – Chinese–Tibet Uprising.
* August 23 – Chinese Civil War: The Second Taiwan Strait crisis begins with the People's Liberation Army's bombardment of Quemoy.
* October Unknown date — Sichan Radio Manufacturing, as predecessor of home appliance and visual electronic brand Changhong was founded.

## Births
### January

* January 20 — Huo Jianqi, film director

### February

* February 1 — Tony Leung Ka-fai, Hong Kong actor
* February 5 — Huang Yubin, head coach of the Men's Artistic Gymnastics Team of China
* February 15 — Li Youbin, actor
* Wang Dongfeng, 16th Mayor of Tianjin

### March

* March 5 — Yi Gang, 12th Governor of the People's Bank of China
* March 18 — Feng Xiaogang, film director, screenwriter, actor, producer and politician

### May

* May 1 — Mang Hoi, Hong Kong actor and action director (d. 2023)

### June

* June 18 — Michael Miu, Hong Kong actor and businessman

### August

* August 17 — Chip Tsao, Hong Kong-based columnist, broadcaster and writer
* August 21 — Cora Miao, Hong Kong actress
* August 23 — Wang Shuo, writer
* August 30 — Yu Rongguang, actor and martial artist
* Bu Xiaolin, 11th Chairwoman of Inner Mongolia
* Che Dalha, 10th Chairman of the Tibet Autonomous Region

### September

* September 2 — Hu Mei, film director, television director and producer
* September 7 — Danny Chan, Hong Kong singer, songwriter and actor (d. 1993)
* Chen Xuefeng, politician and mining executive from Henan

### October

* October 2 — Dilber Yunus, Uyghur lyric soprano
* October 9 — Hui Ka Yan, former billionaire businessman

### November

* November 6 — Bai Baoshan, serial killer (d. 1998)
* November 10 — Yang Liping, dancer and choreographer

### December

* December 24 — Wang Luoyang, actor
* December 27 — Xu Shaohua, actor
* Guo Mingyi, philanthropist

### Dates unknown

* Di Li Feng, contemporary artist

## Deaths

* February 10
** Huang Jing, 1st Mayor of Tianjin (b. 1912)
** Yang Baosen, Peking opera singer (b. 1909)
* February 16 — Situ Qiao, oil painter and graphic artist (b. 1902)
* March 9 — Cheng Yanqiu, Peking opera singer (b. 1904)
* March 15 — Wang Chonghui, jurist, diplomat and politician (b. 1881)
* June 21 — Liu Yazi, poet and political activist (b. 1887)
* August 26 — Ji Xingwen, nationalist lieutenant general (b. 1908)
* September 30 — Tang Feifan, medical microbiologist (b. 1897)
* October 17 — Zheng Zhenduo, journalist, writer, archaeologist and scholar (b. 1898)
* December 13 — Luo Changpei, linguist (b. 1899)