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| 1955, Jan.–Feb |
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| Communist and Nationalist forces battled over the offshore islands in the Taiwan Strait. Premier Zhou Enlai refused (Feb. 3) a UN Security Council invitation to talk about a cease-fire. | 1 |
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| Feb. 5 |
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| The U.S. Seventh Fleet was ordered to help evacuate Nationalist Chinese from the Dazhen Islands, which were taken over by the Communists (Feb. 11). | 2 |
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| April 23 |
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| Premier Zhou Enlai announced to the participants at the Bandung Conference in Indonesia that his country did not want war with the U.S. and expressed his willingness to negotiate on East Asian issues, including that of Taiwan. The offer was renewed on May 16. | 3 |
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| July |
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| Mao announced that China would move more rapidly toward agricultural collectivization, a means of streamlining agricultural production, which was needed to support industrial growth. Over the course of the next year, Chinese agricultural organization was largely transformed, a process completed in 1957. | 4 |
| During 1955, Hu Feng, a former friend of Lu Xun and activist in left-wing literary affairs from the 1930s, became the object of a fierce campaign of invective, all of it seemingly fabricated. He was imprisoned almost continuously until 1979. | 5 |
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