April 24
China successfully launched its fifirst artiificial satellite
December 25
The CPC Central Committee approved the construction of the Gezhouba Water Control Project on the Yangtze River. The Project was completed in December 1988.
From: Chronicle of the People's Republic of China (October 1949 — September 2019) ,edited by The Institute of Party History and Literature of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, PP74