1998 in China explained

The following lists events in the year 1998 in China.

Incumbents

Party General Secretary

President

Premier

Li Peng (until 17 March), Zhu Rongji (starting 17 March)

Vice President

Rong Yiren (until March 12), Hu Jintao (starting March 15)

Vice Premier

Zhu Rongji (until March 17) Li Lanqing (starting March 17)

Governors

- - - - Governor of Anhui Province - Hui Liangyu then Wang Taihua Governor of Fujian Province - He Guoqiang Governor of Gansu Province - Sun Ying then Song Zhaosu Governor of Guangdong Province - Lu Ruihua Governor of Guizhou Province - Wu Yixia then Qian Yunlu Governor of Hainan Province - Ruan Chongwu then Wang Xiaofeng Governor of Hebei Province - Ye Liansong then Yue Qifeng
      - Governor of Heilongjiang Province - Tian Fengshan Governor of Henan Province - Ma Zhongchen then Li Keqiang Governor of Hubei Province - Jiang Zhuping Governor of Hunan Province - Yang Zhengwu then Chu Bo Governor of Jiangsu Province - Zheng Silin then Ji Yunshi
- Governor of Jiangxi Province - Shu Shengyou Governor of Jilin Province - Wang Yunkun then Hong Hu
Governor of Liaoning Province - Wen Shizhen (until January), Zhang Guoguang (starting January)
- - Governor of Qinghai Province - Bai Enpei Governor of Shaanxi Province - Cheng Andong Governor of Shandong Province - Li Chunting
    - Governor of Shanxi Province - Sun Wensheng Governor of Sichuan Province - Song Baorui Governor of Yunnan Province - Li Jiating Governor of Zhejiang Province - Chai Songyue

Events

9th National People's Congress
Launch of the Three Stresses campaign
June–September — 1998 Yangtze River floods
June 23 — Chenggu axe massacre
November 11 — Tencent founded.
November 19 — 1998 Ninglang earthquake

Births

January 10 — Xu Shilin, tennis player
March 1 — Chen Yufeng, badminton player
December 16 — Zhou Jieqiong, singer and actress, member of I.O.I and Pristin
December 27 — He Jie, athlete

Deaths

January 10 — Deng Guangming, historian (b. 1907)
January 28 — Lee Ya-Ching, film actress, pioneering aviator and philanthropist (b. 1912)
February 22 — Han Youwen, Salar Muslim general and politician (b. 1912)
March 13 — Ma Yueliang, Manchu teacher of Tai chi (b. 1901)
April 9 — Lü Shuxiang, linguist, lexicographer and educator (b. 1904)
April 12 — Xin Fengxia, pingju opera performer (b. 1927)
May 3 — Xue Yue, Nationalist general (b. 1896)
May 21 — Li Bo, phytoecologist (b. 1929)
May 27 — Shu Tong, politician (b. 1905)
May 28 — Chung-Yao Chao, theoretical physicist (b. 1902)
June 27 — Tso-hsin Cheng, ornithologist (b. 1906)
August 6 — Deng Zhaoxiang, naval officer (b. 1903)
August 17 — Shi Zhe, military officer, diplomat, translator and interpreter (b. 1905)
August 28 — Lu Dadong, communist revolutionary and politician (b. 1915)
September 14
- Yang Shangkun, 4th President of China (b. 1907)
- Zhang Zongxun, general (b. 1908)
October 7 — Ru Zhijuan, writer (b. 1925)
October 8 — Zhang Chongren, sculptor (b. 1907)
October 9 — Xiao Yang, politician (b. 1929)
November 26 — M. T. Cheng, mathematician (b. 1917)
December 5 — Cheung Tze-keung, notorious Hong Kong gangster (b. 1955)
December 10 — Wang Ganchang, nuclear physicist (b. 1907)
December 11 — Chen Puru, politician (b. 1918)
December 13 — Liang Xiang, politician (b. 1919)
December 19 — Qian Zhongshu, literary scholar and writer (b. 1910)
December 28 — Wang Dezhao, physicist (b. 1905)

Culture

List of Chinese films of 1998

Sport

January 18–24 – 1998 Four Nations Tournament (women's football), in Guangzhou
March 15–21 – 1998 IIHF Asian Oceanic Junior U18 Championship, in Harbin
Chinese Jia-A League season: Chinese Jia-A League 1998
China at the 1998 Asian Games
China at the 1998 Winter Olympics won a total of 8 medals^[1]

Notes and References

Web site: 1998 Nagano Winter Games. https://web.archive.org/web/20200417040452/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/winter/1998/. dead. April 17, 2020. www.sports-reference.com. December 19, 2014.