1996 in China

The following lists events from 1996 in China.

Incumbents

• Party General Secretary: Jiang Zemin
• President: Jiang Zemin
• Premier: Li Peng
• Vice President: Rong Yiren
• Vice Premier: Zhu Rongji

Governors

• Governor of Anhui Province – Hui Liangyu
• Governor of Fujian Province – Chen Mingyi then He Guoqiang
• Governor of Gansu Province – Zhang Wule then Sun Ying
• Governor of Guangdong Province – Zhu Senlin then Lu Ruihua
• Governor of Guizhou Province – Chen Shineng then Wu Yixia
• Governor of Hainan Province – Ruan Chongwu
• Governor of Hebei Province – Ye Liansong
• Governor of Heilongjiang Province – Tian Fengshan
• Governor of Henan Province – Ma Zhongchen
• Governor of Hubei Province – Jiang Zhuping
• Governor of Hunan Province – Yang Zhengwu
• Governor of Jiangsu Province – Zheng Silin
• Governor of Jiangxi Province – Shu Shengyou
• Governor of Jilin Province – Wang Yunkun
• Governor of Liaoning Province – Wen Shizhen
• Governor of Qinghai Province – Tian Chengping
• Governor of Shaanxi Province – Cheng Andong
• Governor of Shandong Province – Li Chunting
• Governor of Shanxi Province – Sun Wensheng
• Governor of Sichuan Province – Xiao Yang then Song Baorui
• Governor of Yunnan Province – Li Jiating
• Governor of Zhejiang Province – Wan Xueyuan

Events

January

• January 27 – Miss Chinese International Pageant 1996 was held.

February

• February 14 –
• Intelsat 708 was destroyed (day in China at the time).
• Long March 3B launched its first flight.
• February 3 – 1996 Lijiang earthquake hit Lijiang City and left at least 322 killed, 3,925 serious injuries, and 13,000 injuries.

March

• March 23 –
• The Republic of China presidential election took place. Lee Teng-hui was elected president and Lien Chan as vice president.
• The Third Taiwan Strait Crisis ended.

April

• April 14 to October 27 – Chinese Jia-A League 1996 was held with Dalian Wanda winning the championship.

June

• June 24 – Hengda Enterprise Company founded by Xu Jiayi, as predecessor of conglomerate, mainly real estate business, Evergrande was founded in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province.

July

• July 19 to August 4 – China competed in the 1996 Summer Olympics with total of 294 athletes.

September

• September 27 to 29 – The first round of the 1996 FIVB World Grand Prix took place in Shanghai.

Births

• January 2 — Xiaoyu Yu, figure skater
• January 3 — Liu Yao Yuan, actor
• January 7 — Fu Yuanhui, swimmer
• January 22 – Gao Shiyan, basketball player
• February 17 — Yan Xi, actor
• February 25 — Wang Ziqi, actor
• March 5 — Zhou Yan Chen, actor
• March 23 — Zhao Wenhao, actor
• March 31 — Chen Xingxu, actor
• May 4 – Richard Lin, actor
• June 10 - Jun (entertainer) (born Wen Junhui), singer, actor, member of Seventeen
• June 22 — Zhang Xiaoang, actor
• June 25 — Cai Yi Jia, actor
• July 8 — Zhang He Hao Zhen, actor
• July 24 — Zhang Mo Huai, actor
• August 27 — Wang Jian, long jumper
• September 20 — Leo Dong, actor
• October 4 — Lin Yiming, actor
• October 19 — Caesar Wu, actor
• October 29 — Chen Zheyuan, actor
• December 29 — Marcus Li, actor

Deaths

• January 4 — Zhou Mingzhen, paleomammalogist and vertebrate paleontologist (b. 1918)
• January 17 — Zhu Xuefan, politician (b. 1905)
• January 20 — Lo Wei, Hong Kong film director and film actor (b. 1918)
• January 27 — Chen Chu, diplomat (b. 1917)
• February 2 — Li Peiyao, politician (b. 1933)
• February 8 — Li Guoping, mathematician (b. 1910)
• March 1 — Ng Wui, Hong Kong film director, writer and actor (b. 1913)
• March 14 — Wang Luobin, songwriter (b. 1913)
• March 19 — Chen Jingrun, mathematician (b. 1933)
• May 5 — Ai Qing, poet (b. 1910)
• May 9 — Lu Dingyi, politician (b. 1906)
• May 12 — Chiang Chao-shen, calligrapher,painter and seal engraver (b. 1925)
• June 24 — Zhao Lei, actor (b. 1928)
• June 28 — Kwan Tak-hing, Hong Kong martial artist and actor (b. 1905)
• August 25 — Dai Houying, novelist (b. 1938)
• September 13 — Wang Shoudao, politician (b. 1906)
• September 18 — Bai Yang, film and drama actress (b. 1920)
• September 26 — David Chan Yuk-cheung, prominent leader of the Baodiao movement in Hong Kong (b. 1950)
• September 27 — Lee Tit, director (b. 1913)
• September 29 — Li Qiang, revolutionary, military engineer, secret agent, radio scientist, diplomat and politician (b. 1905)
• October 1 — Deng Yuzhi, social activist (b. 1900)
• October 5 — Duanmu Hongliang, writer (b. 1912)
• October 21 — Wang Li, propagandist (b. 1922)
• November 2 — Yan Jici, physicist and politician (b. 1901)
• November 10 — Zhou Gucheng, politician (b. 1898)
• November 17 — Huo Shilian, politician (b. 1909)
• November 18 — Zhu Zuxiang, soil scientist and politician (b. 1916)
• December 13 — Cao Yu, playwright (b. 1910)
• December 17
• Li Han-hsiang, film director (b. 1926)
• Sun Yaoting, last imperial court eunuch of Chinese history (b. 1902)

See also

• List of Chinese films of 1996
• List of Hong Kong films of 1996
• China at the 1996 Summer Olympics
• China at the 1996 Summer Paralympics
• China at the 1996 Asian Winter Games

References

External sources

• China in 1996 :: The Economy -- Encyclopædia Britannica