1942 in China

Incumbents

• President: Lin Sen
• Premier: Chiang Kai-shek
• Vice Premier: Kung Hsiang-hsi

  Events

• Beginning of the Chinese famine of 1942-43
• April 26 - a gas and coal dust explosion in the Benxihu Colliery killed 1,549 miners.
• mid May-early September - Zhejiang-Jiangxi Campaign
• A cholera epidemic in Yunnan province kills around 200 people

  Births

• December 21 - Hu Jintao
• Chen Jialin
• Huang Baosheng
• Wang Zhizhen
• He Xiangjian
• Chen Guidi
• Huang Zhiquan

  Deaths

• Zhao Shangzhi
• May 27 - Chen Duxiu