# 1930 in China

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Events from the year 1930 in China.

## Incumbents

* Chairman of the Nationalist government: Chiang Kai-shek
* Premier:
** until September 22: Tan Yankai
** September 25 – December 4: T.V. Soong
** starting December 4: Chiang Kai-shek
* Vice Premier: Feng Yuxiang until October 11, T.V. Soong

## Events

* January 29 – March 24 — Encirclement Campaign against Hunan–Jiangxi Soviet
* March 2 — The League of the Left-Wing Writers was established in Shanghai, at the instigation of the Chinese Communist Party and the influence of the celebrated author Lu Xun.
* May – November 4 — Central Plains War
* May 6 — China signed tariff treaties with Japan. The Republic of China government obtained itself right of tariff autonomy. Some Japanese goods do not need to pay tariffs.
* October 27 – December 1 — Musha Incident in Taiwan.
* December — Futian incident

## Births
### January

* January 1 — Sihung Lung, Taiwanese actor of Manchu descent (d. 2002)
* January 19 — Li Daozeng, architect (d. 2020)
* January 22 — Yu Ying-shih, Chinese-born American historian and sinologist (d. 2021)

### March

* March 2 — Liu Siqi, wife of Mao Anying, eldest son of Mao Zedong (d. 2022)
* March 26 — Song Wencong, aerospace engineer and aircraft designer (d. 2016)

### April

* April 6 — Qiu Dahong, engineer (d. 2025)
* April 15 — Zhu Xu, actor (d. 2018)
* Jiang Chunyun, Vice Premier of China (d. 2021)
* Liang Jun, first female tractor driver in Communist China who later became a folk hero and model worker (d. 2020)

### May

* May 9 — Yan Su, playwright and lyricist (d. 2016)
* May 21 — Wang Yingluo, academic in management science and management engineering (d. 2023)
* May 24 — Han Zhenxiang, electrical engineer (d. 2024)

### June

* June 10 — Chen Xitong, 8th Secretary of the Beijing Municipal Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (d. 2013)
* June 13 — Li Zehou, philosopher (d. 2021)

### July

* July 1 — Hu Ping, 10th Governor of Fujian (d. 2020)
* July 3 — Ku Feng, Hong Kong actor
* July 8 — Lu Shibi, orthopedist (d. 2020)

### September

* September 3 — Cho-yun Hsu, Taiwanese historian
* September 7 — Yuan Longping, agronomist and inventor (d. 2021)

### October

* October 14 — Pan Junhua, applied optics engineer (d. 2023)
* October 26 — Sun Yueh, Taiwanese actor (d. 2018)
* Zhu Senlin, 13th Governor of Guangdong

### November

* November 20 — Bai Hua, novelist, playwright and poet (d. 2019)
* November 22 — Li Yining, economist (d. 2023)

### December

* December 30 — Tu Youyou, pharmaceutical chemist
* December 31 — Guo Lanying, operatic soprano

### Dates unknown

** Hua Sanchuan, painter and illustrator (d. 2004)
** Wu Yanxia, tai chi teacher (d. 2001)

## Deaths

* February 24
** Wang Zuo, former bandit chieftain who operated in the Jinggang Mountains of Jiangxi (b. 1898)
** Yuan Wencai, bandit chieftain who operated in the Jinggang Mountains of Jiangxi (b. 1898)
* June 1 — Wang Shizhen, 8th Premier of the Republic of China (b. 1861)
* July 21 — Wang Zhixiang, politician (b. 1858)
* July 27 — Chen Delin, actor and singer of both Peking and Kun opera (b. 1862)
* August 17 — Joseph Charignon, Franco-Chinese engineer (b. 1872)
* September 22 — Tan Yankai, 1st Chairman of the National Government of China (b. 1880)
* September 14 — Lin Baoyi, admiral in the Republic of China Navy (b. 1864)
* November 14 — Yang Kaihui, second wife of Mao Zedong (b. 1901)