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1971 in China

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Centuries:
  
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1971 in China

Decades:
  
1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s

Events in the year 1971 in the People's Republic of China.

Contents

Incumbents

  • Chairman of the Communist Party of China – 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

    • March

  • March 26 – Cameroon and the People's Republic of China established bilateral relations

    • May

  • May 26 – Austria and the People's Republic of China establish diplomatic relations.

    • June

  • June 10 – The U.S. ends its trade embargo of China.

    • September

  • September 13 – The Chinese Communist military leader Lin Biao dies in a plane crash in Mongolia after what appeared to be a failed coup to oust Mao. After his death, he was officially condemned as a traitor.

    • October

  • October 25 – The United Nations General Assembly admits the People's Republic of China and expels the Republic of China (Taiwan).

    • November

  • November 23 – The People's Republic of China takes the Republic of China's seat on the United Nations Security Council (see China and the United Nations).
  • Henry Kissinger secretly visits Beijing

    • Deaths

  • April 29 - Li Siguang, Chinese scientist. the founder of China's geomechanics (born 1899)
  • September 13 – Lin Biao, Vice Chairman of the Communist Party of China (plane crash) (born 1907)
  • September 13 – Lin Liguo, the son of the Chinese Communist military leader Lin Biao (born 1945)
  • September 13 – Ye Qun, the wife of the Chinese Communist military leader Lin Biao (born 1945)

    • References

    1971 in China Wikipedia
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