1928 in China
Events in the year 1928 in China.
Incumbents
- President – Zhang Zuolin, Tan Yankai, Chiang Kai-shek
- Premier – Pan Fu, Tan Yankai
- Vice Premier – Feng Yuxiang
Events
February
- 7 February – Tan Yankai became the first Chairman of the Nationalist Government.
March
- 26 March – The China Academy of Art is founded in Hangzhou.
April
- 30 April – Beiyang government troops withdrew from Jinan.
May
- 3 May – Jinan Incident, an armed conflict between the Japanese Imperial Army allied with Northern Chinese warlords against the Kuomintang's southern army, occurs in Jinan.
June
- 4 June – Huanggutun Incident.
July
- 1 July – Zhang Xueliang announced an armistice with the Kuomintang and proclaimed that he would not interfere with the re-unification.
- 3 July – Chiang Kai-shek arrived in Beijing and met the representative from the Fengtian clique to discuss a peaceful settlement.
- 8 July – Looting of the Eastern Mausoleum.
- 25 July – The United States recalls its troops from China.
October
- 8 October – Chiang Kai-shek is named as Generalissimo of the Nationalist government of the Republic of China.
December
- 29 December – Chinese reunification.
Births
January
- January 1 — Wu Yangjie, organic chemist
- January 2 — Nie Bichu, 11th Mayor of Tianjin
- January 5 — Qian Qichen, 7th Minister of Foreign Affairs of China
February
- February 3 — Hou Feng, plant breeding engineer
- February 12 — Wang Yeping, spouse of the 4th Paramount Leader Jiang Zemin
- February 17 — Zhang Shourong, metallurgist
- February 23 — Zhang Cunhao, physical chemist
March
- March 7 — Lee Shau-kee, Hong Kong business magnate, investor and philanthropist
- March 11 — Zhao Lirong, singer and film actress
- March 19 — Sutano Djuhar, Indonesian Chinese businessman, investor and philanthropist
July
- July 26 — Zong Pu, novelist
- July 28 — Ng Teng Fong, Singaporean real estate tycoon
- July 29 — Li Ka-shing, Hong Kong billionaire business magnate, investor and philanthropist
- Zhao Baotong, MiG-15 pilot
August
- August 1
- *Zhang Wannian, general of the People's Liberation Army
- *Shen Daren, 7th Secretary of the Jiangsu Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party
- August 18 — John Liu Shi-gong, Roman Catholic bishop
October
- October 20 — Li Peng, 4th Premier of China
- October 21 — Yu Kwang-chung, Taiwanese writer, poet, educator and critic
- October 23 — Zhu Rongji, 5th Premier of China
November
- November 5 — Gyalo Thondup, Tibetan politician
Dates unknown
- Sun Shenlu, pilot of the People's Liberation Army Air Force
Deaths
- March 21 — Zhang Shaozeng, 15th Premier of the Republic of China
- March 30 — Xia Minghan, early leader of the Chinese Communist Revolution
- April 30 — Gu Hongming, British Malaya born Chinese man of letters
- May 1 — Xiang Jingyu, pioneer of the women's movement of China
- May 3 — Cai Gongshi, nationalist politician and diplomat
- June 3 — Li Yuanhong, 2nd President of the Republic of China
- June 4 — Huanggutun incident
- *Zhang Zuolin, warlord of Manchuria and leader of the Fengtian clique
- *Wu Junsheng, general and commander-in-chief of the cavalry in the Northeastern Army
- June 6 — Chen Qiaonian, revolutionary and early leader of the Chinese Communist Party
- July 7 — Yang Zengxin, 1st Governor of Xinjiang
- September 30 — Shi Pingmei, writer
- October 14 — Chen Jue, communist revolutionary
- November 6 — Lu Rongting, warlord and head of the Old Guangxi clique