1970 in China
Events in the year 1970 in the People's Republic of China.
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
- 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 - Song Ping
- Governor of Guangdong Province - Liu Xingyuan
- Governor of Guizhou Province - Ma Li
- Governor of Hebei Province - Li Zaihe
- Governor of Heilongjiang Province - Pan Fusheng
- Governor of Henan Province - Liu Jianxun
- Governor of Hubei Province - Zeng Siyu
- Governor of Hunan Province - Li Yuan then Hua Guofeng
- 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 Ruishan
- Governor of Shandong Province - Yang Dezhi
- Governor of Shanxi Province - Liu Geping
- Governor of Sichuan Province - Zhang Guohua
- Governor of Yunnan Province - Tan Furen, Zhou Xing
- Governor of Zhejiang Province - Nan Ping
Events
April
- April 24 – China launched its first space satellite Dong Fang Hong I as part of the PRC's Dong Fang Hong space satellite program.
October
- October 13 – The People's Republic of China and Canada signed established diplomatic relations.
- October 14 – A Chinese nuclear test is conducted in Lop Nor.
December
- December 30 – Construction of the Gezhouba Dam started.
Births
- September 7 – Gao Min, Chinese diver
- October 30 – Xie Jun, Chinese chess grandmaster
Deaths
- January 14 — Ma Hongkui, Muslim warlord
- March 25 — Xu Haidong, senior general in the People's Liberation Army
- April 6 — Tang Shengzhi, warlord
- May 4 — Ma Xulun, politician, activist and linguist
- July 13 — Sheng Shicai, warlord who ruled Xinjiang from 1933 to 1944
- September 20 — Gong Peng, wartime spokeswoman for the Chinese Communist Party
- September 23 — Zhao Shuli, Chinese novelist and a leading figure of modern Chinese literature
- September 27 — Li Tianyou, general in the People's Liberation Army
- October 21 — Li Linsi, educator, diplomat and scholar
- November 5 — Xie Xuehong, 1st Chairwoman of the Taiwan Democratic Self-Government League
- December 10
- *Huang Qixiang, military commander and statesman
- *Chen Qiyou, Chairman of the China Zhi Gong Party