# 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 (day in China at the time).
** 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
* 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) (born Wen Junhui), 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 (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)