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