Events in the year 1925 in China.
Incumbents President: Duan Qirui Premier: Xu Shiying (from 26 December)
Events January – Election of the 4th Central Bureau of the Chinese Communist Party 11 February – Establishment of the Prefecture Apostolic of Tsingtao 1 May – Establishment of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions 30 May – Beginning of the May Thirtieth Movement June – Start of the Canton–Hong Kong strike November – Start of the Anti-Fengtian War Establishment of the 4th Central Executive Committee of the Chinese Communist Party Establishment of the National Revolutionary Army
Undated Changzhou No.1 High School is established
Births 11 January — Hualing Nieh Engle, novelist, fiction writer and poet (d. 2024) 2 April — Ye Minghan, physicist (d. 2024) 25 May — Liu Ruozhuang, physical chemist (d. 2020) 13 July — Huang Zongying, actress (d. 2020) 9 August — Anna Hannevik, Chinese-born Norwegian Salvation Army officer (d. 2025) 23 October — Kwan Hoi-san, Hong Kong actor (d. 2006) 26 October — Chiang Chao-shen, calligrapher, painter and seal engraver (d. 1996) 2 November — Zhang Youshang, biochemist (d. 2022) 18 November — Peng Shilu, nuclear engineer (d. 2021)
Deaths 5 March — Gao Junyu, member of the 2nd Central Executive Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (b. 1896) 12 March — Sun Yat-sen, 1st Provisional President of the Republic of China (b. 1866) 22 March — Duan Zhigui, general of the Anhui clique (b. 1869) 10 April — Hu Jingyi, general and warlord of Henan (b. 1892) 17 April Wong Fei-hung, martial artist and physician (b. 1847) Tan Haoming, former military Governor of Guangxi (b. 1871) 19 August — Wang Jinmei, revolutionary and founding member of the Chinese Communist Party (b. 1898) 20 August — Liao Zhongkai, financier and leader of the Kuomintang (b. 1877) 18 September — Li Jingxi, 7th Premier of the Republic of China (b. 1857) 29 December — Xu Shuzheng, prominent warlord of the Anhui clique (b. 1880)
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