The following lists events from 1996 in China.
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Incumbents
edit- Party General Secretary: Jiang Zemin
- President: Jiang Zemin
- Premier: Li Peng
- Vice President: Rong Yiren
- Vice Premier: Zhu Rongji
Governors
edit- 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
editJanuary
edit- January 27 – Miss Chinese International Pageant 1996 was held.[1]
February
edit- February 14 –
- Intelsat 708 was destroyed (day in China at the time).[2]
- Long March 3B launched its first flight.[3]
- February 3 – 1996 Lijiang earthquake hit Lijiang City and left at least 322 killed, 3,925 serious injuries, and 13,000 injuries.[4]
March
edit- March 23 –
- The Republic of China presidential election took place. Lee Teng-hui was elected president and Lien Chan as vice president.[5][6]
- The Third Taiwan Strait Crisis ended.[7]
April
edit- April 14 to October 27 – Chinese Jia-A League 1996 was held with Dalian Wanda winning the championship.[8]
June
edit- June 24 – Hengda Enterprise Company founded by Xu Jiayi, as predecessor of conglomerate, mainly real estate business, Evergrande was founded in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province.[citation needed]
July
edit- July 19 to August 4 – China competed in the 1996 Summer Olympics with total of 294 athletes.[9]
September
edit- September 27 to 29 – The first round of the 1996 FIVB World Grand Prix took place in Shanghai.[10]
Births
edit- January 2 — Xiaoyu Yu, figure skater
- January 3 — Liu Yao Yuan, actor
- January 7 — Fu Yuanhui, swimmer
- 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
- Wen Junhui, singer, actor, member of Seventeen
- Jun, actor
- 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
edit- January 4 — Zhou Mingzhen, paleomammalogist and vertebrate paleontologist (b. 1918)
- January 17 — Zhu Xuefan, politician (b. 1905)
- January 20 — Lo Wei, Hong Kong film director and film actor (b. 1918)
- January 27 — Chen Chu, diplomat (b. 1917)
- February 2 — Li Peiyao, politician (b. 1933)
- February 8 — Li Guoping, mathematician (b. 1910)
- March 1 — Ng Wui, Hong Kong film director, writer and actor (b. 1913)
- March 14 — Wang Luobin, songwriter (b. 1913)
- March 19 — Chen Jingrun, mathematician (b. 1933)
- May 5 — Ai Qing, poet (b. 1910)
- May 9 — Lu Dingyi, politician (b. 1906)
- May 12 — Chiang Chao-shen, calligrapher,painter and seal engraver (b. 1925)
- June 24 — Zhao Lei, actor (b. 1928)
- June 28 — Kwan Tak-hing, Hong Kong martial artist and actor (b. 1905)
- August 25 — Dai Houying, novelist (b. 1938)
- September 13 — Wang Shoudao, politician (b. 1906)
- September 18 — Bai Yang, film and drama actress (b. 1920)
- September 26 — David Chan Yuk-cheung, prominent leader of the Baodiao movement in Hong Kong (b. 1950)
- September 27 — Lee Tit, director (b. 1913)
- September 29 — Li Qiang, revolutionary, military engineer, secret agent, radio scientist, diplomat and politician (b. 1905)
- October 1 — Deng Yuzhi, social activist (b. 1900)
- October 5 — Duanmu Hongliang, writer (b. 1912)
- October 21 — Wang Li, propagandist (b. 1922)
- November 2 — Yan Jici, physicist and politician (b. 1901)
- November 10 — Zhou Gucheng, politician (b. 1898)
- November 17 — Huo Shilian, politician (b. 1909)
- November 18 — Zhu Zuxiang, soil scientist and politician (b. 1916)
- December 13 — Cao Yu, playwright (b. 1910)
- December 17
- Li Han-hsiang, film director (b. 1926)
- Sun Yaoting, last imperial court eunuch of Chinese history (b. 1902)
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Miss Chinese International Pageant 1996". Archived from the original on 2014-07-14. Retrieved 2014-07-01.
- ^ Disaster at Xichang | History | Air & Space Magazine
- ^ "ch6bod.html". Archived from the original on 2005-11-10. Retrieved 2014-07-01.
- ^ Significant Earthquake
- ^ Nohlen, D, Grotz, F & Hartmann, C (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume II, p558 ISBN 0-19-924959-8
- ^ Wu Yu-Shan, “Taiwan’s Domestic Politics and Cross-Strait Relations,” The China Journal, No. 53 (January 2005), 60.
- ^ Taiwan Strait
- ^ China League 1996 Archived 2012-09-29 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ China at the 1996 Atlanta Summer Games | Olympics at Sports-Reference.com
- ^ Results Archived 2010-08-23 at the Wayback Machine