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, Wang Zhen
- Vice Premier: Wan Li, Yao Yilin
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, Zhang Haoruo
- Governor of Yunnan Province - Li Jiating
- Governor of Zhejiang Province - Xue Ju, Shen Zulun
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.
- 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
- January 13 — Chiang Ching-kuo, Nationalist politician and President of the Republic of China
- January 25 — Chen Shixiang, entomologist
- February 16 — Ye Shengtao, writer, journalist, educator, publisher and politician
- February 22 — Pao Ming Pu, mathematician
- February 25 — Louis Zhang Jiashu, Jesuit priest
- May 1 — Yan Wenliang, painter and educator
- May 10 — Shen Congwen, writer
- May 14 — Zhuang Xiquan, politician
- June 22 — Xiao Jun, author and intellectual
- June 23 — Liang Shuming, philosopher
- July 13 — Ji Dengkui, Former Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China
- July 26 — Lai Shiu Wing, footballer
- July 31 — Li Fenglou, footballer and coach
- August 8 — Liu Liangmo, musician and Chinese Christian leader
- August 15 — Han Deqin, Nationalist general
- August 30 — Yan Kelun, politician
- September 3 — Miao Yuntai, politician
- October 3 — Ma Haide, American doctor who practiced medicine in China
- October 14 — Qian Changzhao, politician
- November 6 — Tan Zheng, general
- December 8 — Ulanhu, 3rd Vice President of China
- December 22 — Wang Bingnan, diplomat
- December 26 — Tao Zhiyue, military officer and politician