1988 in China

The following lists events in the year 1988 in China.

Incumbents

• General Secretary of the Communist Party: Zhao Ziyang
• President: Li Xiannian, Yang Shangkun
• Premier: Zhao Ziyang, Li Peng
• Vice President: Ulanhu (until April 8), Wang Zhen (starting April 8)
• Vice Premier: Wan Li (until 25 March), Yao Yilin (starting 25 March)

Governors

• Governor of Anhui Province – Lu Rongjing
• Governor of Fujian Province – Wang Zhaoguo
• Governor of Gansu Province – Jia Zhijie
• Governor of Guangdong Province – Ye Xuanping
• Governor of Guizhou Province – Wang Zhaowen
• Governor of Hainan Province – Liang Xiang then Liu Jianfeng
• Governor of Hebei Province – Xie Feng then Yue Qifeng
• Governor of Heilongjiang Province – Hou Jie
• Governor of Henan Province – Cheng Weigao
• Governor of Hubei Province – Guo Zhenqian
• Governor of Hunan Province – Xiong Qingquan
• Governor of Jiangsu Province – Gu Xiulian
• Governor of Jiangxi Province – Wu Guanzheng
• Governor of Jilin Province – He Zhukang
• Governor of Liaoning Province – Li Changchun
• Governor of Qinghai Province – Song Ruixiang
• Governor of Shaanxi Province – Hou Zongbin
• Governor of Shandong Province – 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

• 7th National People's Congress
• 18 January – China Southwest Airlines Flight 4146
• 24 January – According to Chinese government official confirmed report, a Kunming to Shanghai passenger train crush, and 13 cars derailment in Qujing, Yunnan Province, total kills 80 person and injures 65 person.
• 14 March – Johnson South Reef Skirmish
• 17 September – China National Petroleum Corporation was established, as changing from Petroleum and chemical industrial section of PRC. (People's Republic of China)
• December–January 1989 – Nanjing anti-African protests
• unknown date
• Ping An Insurance founded.
• Xigang Real Estate Development, as predecessor of Wanda Group founded in Dalian, Liaoning Province.
• Skyworth was founded in Shenzhen.

Culture

• List of Chinese films of 1988

Sport

• China at the 1988 Summer Paralympics
• China at the 1988 Summer Olympics won a total of 28 medals
• China at the 1988 Winter Olympics won no medals

Births

• January 21 – Xiao Yiming
• February 3 – Qian Jialing
• February 21 – Fan Jiachen
• March 14 – Ma Sichun, Chinese actress
• June 23 – Fu Yanlong
• November 25 – Rong Jing

Deaths

• January 7 — Liao Mengxing, political activist (b. 1904)
• January 13 — Chiang Ching-kuo, Nationalist politician and President of the Republic of China (b. 1910)
• January 25 — Chen Shixiang, entomologist (b. 1905)
• February 16 — Ye Shengtao, writer, journalist, educator, publisher and politician (b. 1894)
• February 22 — Pao Ming Pu, mathematician (b. 1910)
• February 25 — Louis Zhang Jiashu, Jesuit priest (b. 1893)
• May 1 — Yan Wenliang, painter and educator (b. 1893)
• May 10 — Shen Congwen, writer (b. 1902)
• May 14 — Zhuang Xiquan, politician (b. 1888)
• June 22 — Xiao Jun, author and intellectual (b. 1907)
• June 23 — Liang Shuming, philosopher (b. 1893)
• July 13 — Ji Dengkui, Former Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China (b. 1923)
• July 26 — Lai Shiu Wing, footballer (b. 1917)
• July 31 — Li Fenglou, footballer and coach (b. 1912)
• August 8 — Liu Liangmo, musician and Chinese Christian leader (b. 1909)
• August 15 — Han Deqin, Nationalist general (b. 1892)
• August 30 — Yan Kelun, politician (b. 1913)
• September 3 — Miao Yuntai, politician (b. 1894)
• October 3 — Ma Haide, American doctor who practiced medicine in China (b. 1910)
• October 14 — Qian Changzhao, politician (b. 1899)
• November 6 — Tan Zheng, general (b. 1906)
• December 8 — Ulanhu, 3rd Vice President of China (b. 1906)
• December 22 — Wang Bingnan, diplomat (b. 1908)
• December 26 — Tao Zhiyue, military officer and politician (b. 1892)

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