Weightlifting was part of the 1965 National Games of China held in Beijing. Only men competed in seven bodyweight categories which mostly mirrored the international standard at the time. In 1965 the Chinese Weightlifting Association was not yet a member federation of the IWF.

The competition program at the National Games mirrors that of the Olympic Games as only medals for the total achieved are awarded, but not for individual lifts in either the snatch or clean and jerk. Likewise an athlete failing to register a snatch result cannot advance to the clean and jerk.

Medal summary

Men 56 kgYe HaoboGuangdong 345 kgLi JiyuanPLA 342.5 kgDong HuatianJiangsu 335 kg60 kgJi FayuanHubei 372.5 kgZhang ZongguiJiangsu 347.5 kgZhu ChuqiangHunan 345 kg67.5 kgDeng GuoyinSichuan 400 kgChen ZhengyePLA 392.5 kgLiu HuaiyouHenan 390 kg75 kgCen AqiShanghai 412.5 kgZhang YuancangHebei 400 kgYuan JiazhiHunan 397.5 kg82.5 kgQian YukaiXinjiang 455 kgYang TangxianHubei 425 kgZheng KunlongHebei 405 kg90 kgWu GuanxiPLA 442.5 kgXie YanfaPLA 437.5 kgWeng QinhuaGuangxi 435 kg100 kgPeng GuangzhuHebei 477.5 kgWang LijunHebei 457.5 kgWu FulinPLA 450 kg

Medal table

References Archived results of the 1965 Games