1986 in China

The following lists events in the year 1986 in China.

Incumbents

• General Secretary of the Communist Party: Hu Yaobang
• President: Li Xiannian
• Premier: Zhao Ziyang
• Vice President: Ulanhu
• Vice Premier: Wan Li

Governors

• Governor of Anhui Province – Wang Yuzhao
• Governor of Fujian Province – Hu Ping then Wang Zhaoguo
• Governor of Gansu Province – Chen Guangyi then Jia Zhijie
• Governor of Guangdong Province – Ye Xuanping
• Governor of Guizhou Province – Wang Zhaowen
• Governor of Hebei Province – Zhang Shuguang then Xie Feng
• Governor of Heilongjiang Province – Hou Jie
• Governor of Henan Province – He Zhukang
• Governor of Hubei Province – Huang Zhizhen then Guo Zhenqian
• Governor of Hunan Province – Xiong Qingquan
• Governor of Jiangsu Province – Gu Xiulian
• Governor of Jiangxi Province – Ni Xiance then Wu Guanzheng
• Governor of Jilin Province – Gao Dezhan
• Governor of Liaoning Province – Quan Shuren then Li Changchun
• Governor of Qinghai Province – Song Ruixiang then Jin Jipeng
• Governor of Shaanxi Province – Li Qingwei then Zhang Boxing
• Governor of Shandong Province – Li Chang'an then Jiang Chunyun
• Governor of Shanxi Province – Wang Senhao
• Governor of Sichuan Province – Jiang Minkuan (until January), Zhang Haoruo (starting February)
• Governor of Yunnan Province – Li Jiating
• Governor of Zhejiang Province – Xue Ju (until January), Shen Zulun (starting February)

Events

• Unknown date – Lianyuan Welding Material, as predecessor of Sany (Sanyi Heavy Industry), one of the leading heavy equipment brands in the world, was founded in Hunan Province.

Births

• 12 October – Li Wenliang
• 22 January — Alvin Jiang

Deaths

• January 16 — Hu Yuzhi, former Vice Chairperson of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (b. 1896)
• March 4 — Ding Ling, writer (b. 1904)
• March 6 — Zhu Guangqian, scholar and theoretician of aesthetics (b. 1897)
• March 26 — Chen Yonggui, Vice Premier of China (b. 1915)
• March 28 — Gan Zuchang, general (b. 1905)
• May 3 — Wang Li, linguist, educator, translator and poet (b. 1900)
• June 26 — Gong Zhutong, optical physicist (b. 1904)
• June 30 — Guan Zilan, avant-garde painter (b. 1903)
• July 19 — Wang Shaofang, Huangmei Opera actor (b. 1920)
• July 21 — Zhang Yuzhe, astronomer and director of the Purple Mountain Observatory (b. 1902)
• July 22 — Ren-Chang Ching, botanist (b. 1898)
• July 29 — Deng Jiaxian, nuclear physicist and academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences (b. 1924)
• August 23 — Ren Baige, politician (b. 1906)
• August 29 — Lu Shijia, physicist and aerospace engineer (b. 1911)
• October 3 — Han Xianchu, general (b. 1913)
• October 7 — Liu Bocheng, military commander and Marshal of the People's Liberation Army (b. 1892)
• October 22 — Ye Jianying, 3rd Standing Committee of the National People's Congress of China (b. 1897)
• November 7 — Yang Shangkui, 2nd Secretary of the Jiangxi Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (b. 1905)
• November 20 — Tang Liang, general (b. 1910)
• November 22 — Chen Manyuan, 2nd Secretary of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Regional Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (b. 1911)
• December 6 — Qian Ning, water conservancy expert (b. 1922)
• December 28 — Huang Kecheng, senior general of the People's Liberation Army (b. 1902)

See also

• 1986 in Chinese film

References