1998 in China
The following lists events in the year 1998 in China.
Incumbents
- Party General Secretary: Jiang Zemin
- President: Jiang Zemin
- Premier: Li Peng, Zhu Rongji
- Vice President: Rong Yiren, Hu Jintao
- Vice Premier: Zhu Rongji Li Lanqing
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, Zhang Guoguang
- 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
- 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
- January 28 — Lee Ya-Ching, film actress, pioneering aviator and philanthropist
- February 22 — Han Youwen, Salar Muslim general and politician
- March 13 — Ma Yueliang, Manchu teacher of Tai chi
- April 9 — Lü Shuxiang, linguist, lexicographer and educator
- April 12 — Xin Fengxia, pingju opera performer
- May 3 — Xue Yue, Nationalist general
- May 21 — Li Bo, phytoecologist
- May 27 — Shu Tong, politician
- May 28 — Chung-Yao Chao, theoretical physicist
- June 27 — Tso-hsin Cheng, ornithologist
- August 6 — Deng Zhaoxiang, naval officer
- August 17 — Shi Zhe, military officer, diplomat, translator and interpreter
- August 28 — Lu Dadong, communist revolutionary and politician
- September 14
- *Yang Shangkun, 4th President of China
- *Zhang Zongxun, general
- October 7 — Ru Zhijuan, writer
- October 8 — Zhang Chongren, sculptor
- October 9 — Xiao Yang, politician
- November 26 — M. T. Cheng, mathematician
- December 5 — Cheung Tze-keung, notorious Hong Kong gangster
- December 10 — Wang Ganchang, nuclear physicist
- December 11 — Chen Puru, politician
- December 13 — Liang Xiang, politician
- December 19 — Qian Zhongshu, literary scholar and writer
- December 28 — Wang Dezhao, physicist
Culture
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