1990 in China
The following lists events in the year 1990 in China.
Incumbents
- General Secretary of the Communist Party: Jiang Zemin
- President: Yang Shangkun
- Premier: Li Peng
- Vice President: Wang Zhen
- Vice Premier: Yao Yilin
Governors
- Governor of Anhui Province — Fu Xishou
- Governor of Fujian Province — Wang Zhaoguo then Jia Qinglin
- Governor of Gansu Province — Jia Zhijie
- Governor of Guangdong Province — Ye Xuanping
- Governor of Guizhou Province — Wang Zhaowen
- Governor of Hainan Province — Liu Jianfeng
- Governor of Hebei Province — Yue Qifeng then Cheng Weigao
- Governor of Heilongjiang Province — Shao Qihui
- Governor of Henan Province — Cheng Weigao then Li Changchun
- Governor of Hubei Province — Guo Zhenqian then Guo Shuyan
- Governor of Hunan Province — Chen Bangzhu
- Governor of Jiangsu Province — Chen Huanyou
- Governor of Jiangxi Province — Wu Guanzheng
- Governor of Jilin Province — Wang Zhongyu
- Governor of Liaoning Province — Li Changchun, Yue Qifeng
- Governor of Qinghai Province — Jin Jipeng
- Governor of Shaanxi Province — Hou Zongbin, Bai Qingcai
- Governor of Shandong Province — Zhao Zhihao
- Governor of Shanxi Province — Wang Senhao
- Governor of Sichuan Province — Zhang Haoruo
- Governor of Yunnan Province — Li Jiating
- Governor of Zhejiang Province — Shen Zulun, Ge Hongsheng
Events
- 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.
Births
- February 7 — Hua Chenyu, rock singer and songwriter
- February 9 — Ma Ke, actor
- February 13 — Gyaincain Norbu, 11th Panchen Lama
- March 2 — Adderly Fong, Hong Kong Chinese racing driver
- April 20 — Lu Han, singer, actor and dancer
- June 28 — Chen Xuedong, actor and singer
- October 1 – Chen Minyi, Paralympic archer
Deaths
- 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