1990 in China

The following lists events in the year 1990 in China.

Incumbents

September 22 — October 7: 1990 Asian Games in Beijing.
October 2: 1990 Guangzhou Baiyun airport collisions, two commercial planes crashed, a total of 128 people died, 53 persons were hurt, 97 persons survived in Guangdong, according to the China Civil Aviation official confirmed report.
Unknown date: Li-Ning sports goods company was founded.

January 11 — Cai Xiao, Taiwan-born military officer and politician
February 4 — Gao Yinxian, linguist and writer
February 8 — Xu Deheng, politician, scholar and educator
May 2 — Shi Guangnan, composer
May 9 — Lü Wei, diver
May 22 — Ling Shuhua, modernist writer and painter
July 11 — Sun Yu, film director
July 18 — Lap-Ban Chan, Hong Kong actress
July 29 — Cai Qiao, physiologist and physician
August 5 — Zhou Keqin, writer
August 14
*Sun Lianzhong, nationalist general
*Liu Xingyuan, lieutenant general
August 30 — Ch'ien Mu, historian and philosopher
September 11 — Cai Chang, 1st leader of the All-China Women's Federation
September 21 — Xu Xiangqian, 4th Minister of National Defense
October 15 — Yu Pingbo, essayist, poet, historian, redologist and literary critic
October 30 — Kwok Tak-seng, Hong Kong businessman and founder of Sun Hung Kai Properties
November 15 — Cheng Shicai, lieutenant general
November 18 — Dai Chuanzeng, nuclear physicist
November 19 — Sun Li-jen, nationalist general
November 26 — Feng Youlan, philosopher, historian and writer
December 14 — Zhang Qun, Nationalist politician
December 15 — Chen Zhifang, diplomat